Kumazawa Banzan

Kumazawa Banzan was a Japanese Confucian scholar of the Wang Yangming school and a pupil of Nakae Tōju. In the service of Ikeda Mitsumasa of the Okayama Domain he advised on government, flood control and famine relief, and helped shape the domain's reforms. His later writings criticised shogunal policy, and he spent his last years under house arrest at Koga.