Amada Guan

Japanese: 天田愚庵 - あまだ・ぐあん

Year of death: January 17, 1904 (Meiji 37)
Year of birth: July 20, 1854 (August 13, 1854)
A poet and Zen monk from the Meiji period. Adopted son of Shimizu Jirocho. Childhood name Hisagoro, later Goro. Also called Tetsubi. Son of Amada Heitayu and Nami, samurai of Iwakidaira Domain (Iwaki City) in Mutsu Province. At the age of 15, he participated in the Boshin War, during which he was separated from his parents and sister. He traveled to Taiwan to search for his relatives and to express his hatred for the clan's political clique. He plotted to take part in the Southwest War and assassinate Iwakura Tomomi, but was astonished by his rebellion and introduced Shimizu to Jirocho in 1881 (Meiji 14), and he became his adopted son. In February 1884, after Jirocho was imprisoned in a gambling hunt, he wrote and published "Tokai Yukyoden" as a petition for his life in April. Despite his foster father's imprisonment, in August of the same year, one month before the Freedom and People's Rights Movement's Kabasan Uprising, he suddenly terminated the adoption, became a monk, established a hermitage on Kiyomizuzaka in Kyoto, and began a life of waka poetry and pilgrimages to pray for the souls of those who died in the civil war of the Meiji Restoration. He wrote the Pilgrimage Diary (1894). His waka poetry was in the Manyo style, and he was the first of Japan's intellectual yakuza, influencing even Masaoka Shiki. <References> Guan Complete Works

(Masaaki Hiraoka)

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Japanese:

没年：明治37.1.17(1904)
生年：安政1.7.20(1854.8.13)
明治期の歌人,禅僧。清水次郎長の養子。幼名久五郎,のち五郎。鉄眉とも称す。陸奥国磐城平藩(いわき市)藩士甘田平太夫となみの子。15歳で戊辰戦争に参加,この戦いで父母,妹と生別し,藩閥政治への恨みと肉親捜しのため台湾まで足をのばした。西南の役参加と岩倉具視暗殺などを画策して,そのはねかえりぶりにあきれた山岡鉄舟により,明治14(1881)年,清水次郎長に紹介されて養子になる。17年2月,博徒狩りで次郎長が収檻されるや早くも4月,助命嘆願書として『東海遊侠伝』を著して出版。養父収檻中にもかかわらず,自由民権派の加波山蜂起1カ月前の同年8月,突然養子縁組を解消し,出家して京都清水坂に庵を構え,和歌と維新の内戦で死んだ人々の菩提をとむらう行脚の生活に入り,『巡礼日記』(1894)を著す。和歌は万葉調で,正岡子規にも影響を与えた日本のインテリヤクザ第1号。<参考文献>『愚庵全集』

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