Ishida Baigan

Ishida Baigan (; October 12, 1685 – October 29, 1744) was a Japanese lecturer and philosopher, born in Tanba Province, who founded the Shingaku movement (heart learning) based on Neo-Confucianism, the study of the doctrines of Zhu Xi, incorporating Shinto, Buddhism and so on,

His life work has been summarized with the Confucian idea that a man that cannot control his home cannot control his nation. This idea helped motivate many Japanese reformists fighting for Japanese feminists, human, and people's rights.