doshun

Updated: May 22, 2025

Western readers may, however, confidently accept the unanimous verdict of all modern scholars, that the interpretation assigned to the inscription in the first place by the Tokugawa officials, and in the second by Hayashi Doshun, representing the Confucianists, and Soden and Tengai, representing the Buddhists, was grossly unreasonable.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era