Hirose Tansō
Hirose Tanso was a neo-Confucian scholar, teacher and Japanese writer.
Born into a wealthy merchant family, Hirose founded in 1801 the Academy Neo-Confucian Kangien. In Hirose's lifetime, the school was attended by 3,000 young Japanese, and until 1871 by more than 4,000 young men came from all over Japan. Among its graduates were Confucian and Buddhist monks, doctors of traditional Chinese medicine and medicine of Western Europe, politicians and administrators, traders, farmers and samurai.
Hirose published an anthology of his poems in 1837, a three-volume edition of his writings was published as TANSO Zenshu between 1925 and 1927.
