Additionally, Neo-Confucianism and Yomei-gaku were introduced purely as a learning, without the gyoho (method of ascetic practices) such as sitting on the floor calmly (Zen sitting meditation), and Neo-Confucianism in particular was adopted by the bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) as thought for feudal governance.
また中国から、朱子学と陽明学が静座（静坐）（座禅）などの行法をなくした純粋な学問として伝来し、特に朱子学は幕府によって封建支配のための思想として採用された。