Kaibara Ekken

Kaibara Ekken was a Japanese Neo-Confucian scholar and botanist who served the Kuroda lords of the Fukuoka domain. He wrote widely in plain Japanese on ethics, education, health and natural history, including the Yamato honzō, a study of Japanese plants and animals, and the Yōjōkun, a guide to healthy living. Works on the conduct of women attributed to him were widely read in the Edo period.