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Yamaga Sokō (山鹿 素行, 21 September 1622 – 23 October 1685) was a Japanese military writer and philosopher under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period in Japan. As a scholar he applied the Confucian idea of the "superior man" to the samurai class of Japan.
Yamaga Sokō was a military strategist and Confucian philosopher who set forth the first systematic exposition of the missions and obligations of the samurai (warrior) class and who made major contributions to Japanese military science. Yamaga’s thought became the central core of what later came to.
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Yamaga Sokô is without doubt one of the most important figures in the history of bushido. A rônin (masterless samurai) during the Tokugawa period, Sokô s most significant contributions were codifying the bushido ethic and re-envisioning the role of the samurai.
Yamaga Sok ō was a Japanese Confucianist of the kogakuha, or "school of ancient learning," and codifier of the ethics of the military class, Bushidō, the "way of the warrior." He was born in Aizu, Fukushima prefecture.
YAMAGA SOKŌ (1622 – 1685), Japanese Confucian of the school of Ancient Learning (Kogaku). Sok ō was born in Aizu, the son of a masterless warrior named Yamaga Sadamochi (1585 – 1664) and Sadamochi's mistress, My ō chi (d. 1677).
The groundwork for Bushido, the Code of Warriors for Japanese samurai, was laid by Yamaga Soko, a military strategist and Confucian philosopher. He also made significant contributions to the development of Japanese military science.
Yamaga Sokō (山鹿 素行, 21 September 1622 – 23 October 1685) was a Japanese military writer and philosopher under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period in Japan. As a scholar he applied the Confucian idea of the "superior man" to the samurai class of Japan.
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