YAMAZAKI ANSAI (1618–1682), Japanese Confucian and Shintō scholar of the early Tokugawa period. The son of a samurai who lost his position in the turbulence of the early Tokugawa period, Ansai was set at a young age on a career as a Zen...

Yamazaki Ansai(1618–1682) Yamazaki Ansai, the Japanese Confucianist notable for his ethical bent and Confucian rationalization of Shintoism, was raised at Kyoto in a Buddhist monastery. He was so unruly that he was sent to Tosa (now the city of...

This is a Japanese name; the family name is Yamazaki. Yamazaki Ansai (山崎 闇斎 January 24, 1619 – September 16, 1682) was a Japanese philosopher and scholar. He began his career as a Buddhist monk, but eventually came to follow the teachings of...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences' Chinese Ecosystem Research Network maintains a soil research station deep in Loess Plateau, China. The station, called the Ansai station, was built on the Heilutu soil region in 1973 to enable Chinese researchers to determine the structure and function...

What happens if you strip a writer bare? What happens if, like a grade-schooler wielding a soft pink eraser, you rub away the penciled-in curlicues of a writer's life? Get rid of physical trappings? Take away the safaris, the drunken fountain cavortings, the...