‘Itik
f
.
‘Retreat’ to a
mosque
for a certain period of time, to engage in worship, fasting, and reading the
Qur’
n
.
Itivuttaka
(part of the Buddhist P
li canon)
:
It
Jinsai
(1627–1705).
A Japanese
Confucian
scholar from the movement called Ancient Learning (
kokugaku
). He opened his school in
Ky
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where he taught that the true message of the Confucian sages could only be apprehended by reading their ancient writings directly, without reliance upon the later Neo-Confucian commentaries of
Chu
Hsi (1130–1200) and others. His school, known as the Kogid
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or ‘Hall of Ancient Meanings’, was continued by his son, It
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T
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gai (1670–1736), with students drawn from all over Japan. See also
Ogy
Sorai
.