Kaibara Ekken

Kaibara Ekken (貝原 益軒, December 17, 1630 – October 5, 1714) or Ekiken, also known as Atsunobu (篤信), was a Japanese Neo-Confucianist philosopher and botanist.

[2] Kaibara's science was confined to Botany and Materia medica and focused on the "natural law".

The 19th-century German Japanologist Philipp Franz von Siebold called him the "Aristotle of Japan".

As an educator and philosopher, it appears that Kaibara's main goal in life was to further the process of weaving Neo-Confucianism into Japanese culture.

In this context, he is best known for such books as Precepts for Children and Greater Learning for Women (Onna daigaku); but modern scholarship argues that it was actually prepared by other hands.

Bronze Statue of Kaibara Ekken at his gravesite (Kinryū-Temple, Fukuoka-City, Japan)
Yamato honzō . Book of botany written by Kaibara Ekken in 1709. Exhibit in the National Museum of Nature and Science , Tokyo, Japan.
Yōjōkun . Book of healthy way written by Kaibara Ekken in 1713.