Fujiwara Seika
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- In this Japanese name, the family name is Fujiwara.
Fujiwara Seika (藤原 惺窩? 1561 - 1619) was a Japanese philosopher, and a leading neo-Confucian of the early Tokugawa Period. Like Hayashi Razan (1583-1657), he had studied in Zen monasteries. The reason was that Zen monks had been the only teachers of neo-Confucianism until that time in Japan, and some of them were Chinese. The linkages between Zen and neo-Confucianism are profound, for neo-Confucianism was created in part to challenge the influence of Ch’an (Zen) in China.
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