Akatsuki Kanenari

Japanese: 暁鐘成 - あかつき・かねなり

Year of death: December 19, 1861 (January 29, 1861)
Year of birth: 1793
A writer of reading books in the Edo period. Kimura. He was called Yashiro, and also had pseudonyms such as Keimeisha and Akatsukiharuo. He was the fourth son of the third-generation head of the prestigious Izumiya family, which operated a soy sauce business in Osaka. He was born as an illegitimate child and was entrusted to the second-generation head of the branch family, Izumiya Heihachi. While running a souvenir shop called Shika no Ie and a salon-like tea shop called Mikariya, he also wrote and illustrated reading books such as Iroha Soshi (1823) and Onna Kumasaka Oboroya Soshi (1825), as well as enlightening books, miscellaneous books, famous place illustrations, and historical research essays, making him the most popular comic writer in the Osaka publishing world at the end of the Edo period. The fifth-generation head of the branch family, Kimura Heihachi, and his eldest son Toru, were involved in the establishment of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.

(Yoko Kashiwazawa)

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

Japanese:

没年：万延1.12.19(1861.1.29)
生年：寛政5(1793)
江戸時代の読本作者。木村氏。弥四郎と称し,鶏鳴舎,暁晴翁などと号する。大坂で醤油業を営む名家和泉屋の3代目茂兵衛の第4子。庶子として生まれ,分家である2代目和泉屋平八に預けられる。土産物雅器店「鹿の家」やサロン的茶店「美可利家」などを営む一方,『以呂波草紙』(1823),『女熊坂朧夜草紙』(1825)などの読本のほか,啓蒙書や雑書の類,名所図会,考証随筆など,多方面の著述をし,挿絵も描くなど,幕末の大坂出版界では最も人気のある戯作者であった。なお,分家筋の5代目木村平八とその長子騰は,『朝日新聞』の設立にかかわっている。

(樫澤葉子)

出典　朝日日本歴史人物事典：（株）朝日新聞出版朝日日本歴史人物事典について　情報

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