Sugawara Gendou

Japanese: 菅原玄同 - すがわらげんどう

1581‐1628 (Tensho 9‐Kan'ei 5)
A Confucian scholar in the early Edo period. Gendo's given name was Shitoku, and his pen name was Tokuan. He is often referred to as Kan, an abbreviation of his surname Sugawara, which is a Chinese-style one-character surname. He was from Harima. At the age of 24, he went to Kyoto, where he studied medicine while studying Confucianism under Fujiwara Seika. He was known for his erudition, and was praised as a brilliant scholar of the Seika school, on a par with Hayashi Razan, Hori Kyoan, Nawa Katsusho, and Matsunaga Shakugo. On June 14, 1628, he was killed by his disciple Yasuda Ansho. According to Nakae Toju, Gendo was a man of bad character, boasting of his erudition only, and incurred Ansho's resentment because he mistreated Ansho.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1581‐1628(天正9‐寛永5)
江戸初期の儒者。玄同は名。字は子徳，号は得庵。姓の菅原を中国風の一字姓に略して，菅（かん）と呼ばれることが多い。播磨の人。24歳のとき京都に出て，医学を修めるかたわら，藤原惺窩（せいか）に入門して儒学を学んだ。博学をもって聞こえ，林羅山，堀杏庵，那波活所，松永尺五と並ぶ惺窩門の俊才と称される。1628年6月14日，門人の安田安昌に斬殺された。中江藤樹の伝えるところによれば，玄同は博学を誇るのみで人柄がよくなく，安昌を虐待したので，その恨みを買ったのであるという。

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