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.
Quotes
[edit]- The end of learning is the formation of character.
- Ten Kun (1710) sec. 2. Reported in Bernard E. Farber (ed.) A Teacher's Treasury of Quotations (McFarland & Co, 1985) p. 13
- The five worst infirmities that afflict the female are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy, and silliness.
- Onna Daigaku (c. 1729) sec. 6. Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, Women and Wisdom of Japan (London: John Murray, 1905)
