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Yokoyama Marumitsu

Yokoyama Marumitsu

Japanese samurai and diviner (1780–1854)

Yokoyama Marumitsu (Japanese: 横山 丸三, 1780–1854) was a Japanese late Edo period samurai and founder of the Tōkyūjutsu (淘宮術) divination and self-improvement method. He lived in Edo (now Tokyo). His real name was Yokoyama Okitaka (横山興孝), and he was also known as Sannosuke (三之助), Shunkisai (春龜斎), Kiosanjin (木黄山人), 淘山人, 百田楼, 小晌庵等 and other pen names.[1][2][3]

Yokoyama Marumitsu, painting by Iwase Shunga based on a wood-block print.

References

  1. [1]
    Sawada, Janine Anderson Tasca (2004). Practical pursuits: religion, politics, and personal cultivation in nineteenth-century Japan. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 30–42, 202. ISBN 0-8248-2752-X. Retrieved 2009-12-20.
  2. [2]
    横山丸三, Kōdansha Nihon jinmei daijiten. Via kotobank.jp
  3. [3]
    横山興孝, Shibunkaku 美術人名辞典. Alt. link


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