Keichū

Keichu (Japanese契 冲; * 1640 in Amagasaki, † March 4, 1701 ) was a Japanese Buddhist monk and scholar (Text researchers ).

The son of a samurai ( ronin ) of the fief Amagasaki -han to pursue a career as a Buddhist priest and eventually became chief priest ( jūshoku ) of the Shingon temple Myoho -ji in Imazato, Osaka.

At the request of his friend Shimokōbe Choru he took over after his illness in 1682 his work on a commentary on the poem anthology Man'yōshū from the 8th century, the daimyo of the Tokugawa Mitsukuni had been commissioned. With the work daishōki Man'yōshū (万 叶 代 匠 记), which he presented in 1690, he became an important driving force in the literary and philosophical school of Kokugaku.

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• Conrad D. Totman: Early Modern Japan. University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 0-520-20356-9, p 175 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Anne Commons: Hitomaro: Poet as God. Brill, 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17461-0, S. 185 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Kosaku Yoshino: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Enquiry. Routledge, 1992, ISBN 0-203-97345-3, page 34 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).