Keichū
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thumb|upright=1.5|Keichū was a Buddhist priest and a scholar of Kokugaku in the mid Edo period. Keichū's grandfather was a personal retainer of Katō Kiyomasa but his father was a rōnin from the Amagasaki fief. When he was 13, Keichū left home to become an acolyte of the Shingon sect, studying at Kaijō in Myōhōji, Imasato, Osaka. He subsequently attained the post of Ajari (or Azari) at Mount Kōya, and then became chief priest at Mandara-in in Ikutama, Osaka. It was at this time that he became friends with the poet-scholar Shimonokōbe Chōryū (下河辺長流, 1624–1686).
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It is catalogued under topics including 1640 births, 1701 deaths and 17th-century Japanese philosophers.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1640
- Died
- 1701
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Keichū zenshū. fu Chōryū zenshū
- Manʼyōshū daishōki
- Kawayashiro
- Kokin waka yozaishō
- Enjuan zakki
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Amagasaki
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Image
- Keichu02.jpg
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- name in native language
- 契沖
- Commons category
- Keichu
- date of birth
- 1640-01-01
- date of death
- 1701-03-04
- name in kana
- しゃく けいちゅう
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thumb|upright=1.5|Keichū was a Buddhist priest and a scholar of Kokugaku in the mid Edo period. Keichū's grandfather was a personal retainer of Katō Kiyomasa but his father was a rōnin from the Amagasaki fief. When he was 13, Keichū left home to become an acolyte of the Shingon sect, studying at Kaijō in Myōhōji, Imasato, Osaka. He subsequently attained the post of Ajari (or Azari) at Mount Kōya, and then became chief priest at Mandara-in in Ikutama, Osaka. It was at this time that he became friends with the poet-scholar Shimonokōbe Chōryū (下河辺長流, 1624–1686).
However, he disliked the worldly duties of his work and, after wandering around the Kinki region for a while, made his way back to Mount Kōya. Deeply influenced by the thinking of Kūkai, he also read widely in the Japanese classics under the patronage of Fuseya Shigeta (伏屋重賢), a patron of the arts in Izumi Province. After serving as chief priest at Myōhōji, Keichū spent his last years at Enju’an in Kōzu in the Province of Settsu.
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