In Japanese names here, surname is first. "Baien" was a pen-name, "plum garden".
Miura Baien 三浦梅園 | |
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Born | |
Died | April 9, 1789 Aki, Japan | (aged 65)
Region | Japanese philosophy, East Asian Intellectual thought |
Main interests | Natural philosophy, Epistemology, Scientific method, Ethics, Symmetry |
Notable ideas | jorigaku |
Miura Baien (三浦 梅園, September 1, 1723 – April 9, 1789) was a physician, natural philosopher and scholar in mid-Edo Period Japan. He is known as one of the "Three Wise Men of Bungo", along with Banri Hoashi and Hirose Tansō.