Ogyū Sorai 荻生徂徠 (1666–1728; alt. name 物茂卿 Butsu Mokei) was the foremost Edo-period Japanese Confucian philologist and the founder of the Kobunjigaku 古文辞学 (“ancient prose-and-phrase school”) movement, which sought to recover the meaning of the Confucian classics by reading them in the linguistic context of Zhou and early Han Chinese rather than through Sòng Neo-Confucian commentaries. He served as adviser to the bakufu and produced influential works of political theory (Bendō 弁道, Benmei 弁名, Seidan 政談). The Buddhist scholar 湛慧 Tan’e (1676–1747) is recorded as having studied secular Chinese learning under him during his Kyoto years.