Tomoki Oyamada

Japanese: 小山田与清 - おやまだ・ともきよ

Year of death: 25 March 1847 (9 May 1847)
Year of birth: Tenmei 3.3.17 (1783.4.18)
A scholar of Japanese classics and man of letters in the late Edo period. His first name was Takanaga, and he was commonly known as Toranosuke. After he inherited the Takada family, he changed his name to Yoshikiyo, and commonly known as Shojiro and Moemon. In his later years, he was called Shoso. His pen name was Bunju, and he used the names Matsuya, Yoshoso, and Chihisai. He was the son of Tanaka Mototaka and Ina, a local samurai from Oyamada Village, Tama County, Musashi Province (Machida City, Tokyo). At the age of 24, he was adopted by Takada Yosei, a shipping clerk on the Minuma River, and lived in a boat house in Kanda Hanabusa-cho. Since becoming a student of Murata Shunkai, a leader of the Edo school of Japanese classics in 1801, he devoted himself to poetry and commentary on the classics, and after his teacher's death in 1811, he took a leading role in Edo Japanese classics along with Shimizu Hamaomi and Kishimoto Yuzuru. While his life of historical research, supported by his abundant wealth and wide circle of friends, was similar to Shunkai's, he also had a restless side to him, providing literary circles with stories of his feud with Hamaomi and the rumor that had angered Santo Kyoden and led to his death. He had an extremely large library, which he allowed his comrades to read. His appearance in the 1831 book of reviews, Shiriugoto, was proof of his fame, but he gave it a low score, saying, "The writers all seem to have a base desire to get fools on board their boats for exhibitions and earn a lot of money for rowing." His historical essays, such as Matsuya Sowa and Yosho Manpitsu, which are full of details about the circumstances surrounding his surroundings, and Yoshoro Nikki are well known. An outline of his works can be seen in Matsuya Sosho, a collection of 59 works (30 manuscripts, held by the National Diet Library).

(Robert Campbell)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：弘化4.3.25(1847.5.9)
生年：天明3.3.17(1783.4.18)
江戸後期の国学者,文人。初名は貴長,通称寅之助,高田家を継いでからは名を与清,通称を庄次郎,茂右衛門などに改めた。晩年は将曹と称した。字は文儒,号は松屋,擁書倉,知非斎などを用いた。武蔵国多摩郡小山田村(東京都町田市)の郷士田中本孝と稲の子。24歳で見沼川の運漕主事高田与成の養子となり,神田花房町の通船屋敷に居住。享和1(1801)年に江戸派国学の領袖村田春海に入門して以来,歌文と古典注釈にいそしみ,文化8(1811)年,師亡きあとは,清水浜臣,岸本由豆流と共に江戸国学の指導的な立場にいた。豊富な財産と幅広い交友に支えられた考証生活は春海に似る一方,人となり穏やかでない面もあって,浜臣との確執,山東京伝を憤怒させ死に至らしめた噂など,文壇に好話柄を提供した。蔵書すこぶる多く,その閲覧を同志に許した。天保2(1831)年の評判書『しりうごと』に登場すること自体,知名度の証しではあるが,「書きあらはすものども,ことごとく愚人をわが博覧の舟にのせて,漕ぎ賃をおほく得んと欲する卑劣心が見えて」云々と,その点数は辛い。周辺の事情をふんだんに盛り込んだ考証随筆『松屋叢話』『擁書漫筆』などや『擁書楼日記』は著名。著作の概要は,59点を集成した『松屋叢書』(写本30冊,国立国会図書館蔵)にうかがえる。

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