Ando Shoeki

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Andō Shōeki (安藤 昌益, Andō Shōeki^? 1703-1762) was a Japanese philosopher of the eighteenth century. He rejected much of the Buddhist and Confucian thinking prevailing in Edo period Japan^[1]. He also opposed feudalism in the political system.

[edit] References

• Andō, Shōeki (1992). Animal Court: A Political Fable from Old Japan. Diane Pub Co. 
• Andō, Shōeki (1991). Ando Shoeki: Selected Writings. New Holland Publishers. 
• Norman, E. Herbert (1949). Ando Shoeki and the Anatomy of Japanese Feudalism. Asiatic Society of Japan. 
• Yasunaga, Toshinobu (1992). Ando Shoeki: Social and Ecological Philosopher in Eighteenth-Century Japan. New York: Weatherhill. 

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Karine Marandjian, Unseen paradise: the image of Holland in the writings of Ando Shoeki, in The Japanese and Europe: Images and Perceptions (2000), edited by Bert Edström.