Yamazaki Ansai - Yamazaki Ansai Timeline

Yamazaki Ansai Timeline

• 1619 Born in Kyoto
• 1641 Enters Gyūkōji temple in Tosa
• 1647 Leaves Tosa, returns to Kyoto, publishes Heresies Refuted
• 1655 Founds a private school in Kyoto, beginning of the Kimon
• 1658 Moves to Edo, publishes Japanese Elementary Learning
• 1665 Accepts position as private tutor to Hoshina Masayuki
• 1672 Returns to Kyoto, publishes Record of the Fuji no mori Shrine
• 1680 Falling out with Satō Naokata and Asami Keisai, schism in Kimon school
• 1682 Death, buried on Korotani mountain in Kyoto