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2 unusual facts about Zhu Zhiyu


Zhu Zhiyu

At first life was hard as he had little money, but in 1664, Zhu received an invitation from Tokugawa Mitsukuni, grandson of Ieyasu and daimyo of Mito to go to Edo as a senior lecturer in the Toku Schoo.

It was less than fifty years since the original Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu had been forced to bring the troops home from Korea after defeat at the hands of the Koreans and Ming.



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