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Period

Edo

1600–1868

The peace of the Tokugawa shogunate, when a new Neo-Confucianism became Japan's leading philosophy, alongside Buddhist and Shintō thought.

Under the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled from Edo (today’s Tokyo), Japan enjoyed a long period of comparative peace and stability. Christianity, brought by Portuguese and Spanish missionaries, was banned, and Japan was closed to almost all Western contact after 1637. The period’s major philosophical import was a new form of Confucianism, which gave fresh life to a tradition present in Japan since ancient times.

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Sources

  1. Thomas Kasulis and Raquel Bouso, Japanese Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy