Ishizuka Tatsumaro

Japanese: 石塚竜麿 - いしづか・たつまろ

Year of death: 1823.7.20 (6/13/1823)
Year of birth: Meiwa 1 (1764)
A scholar of Japanese classics from the Edo period. His family name was Makisha. He was the second son of Ishizuka Shibaemon, a village headman from Hosoda Village, Shikichi County, Totomi Province (Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture). In 1786 he became a disciple of Naoyama Shinryu, a village headman from Otani Village in the same province, and in 1789 he became a disciple of Motoori Norinaga from Matsusaka. Norinaga trusted him so much in his later years that he accompanied him to Kyoto. He added empirical evidence to Norinaga's research into the ancient Japanese language, and wrote works on kana usage such as Kogon Seido Ko (1801) and Kanazukai Okuyamado (1798 preface), as well as commentaries on classics. At the time, "Seidakuko" was criticized as "the book that agrees with Norinaga's theory is considered correct, and anything that disagrees with his theory is considered incorrect even if it is an ancient book. Isn't this a serious case of slandering the ancients?" (Arakida Kyuuro, "Shinano Manroku"), but it was able to shed light on many new facts about the use of Man'yōgana. <References> Koyama Tadashi, "Research on Ishizuka Tatsumaro"

(Robert Campbell)

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

Japanese:

没年：文政6.6.13(1823.7.20)
生年：明和1(1764)
江戸時代の国学者。屋号は槙舎。遠江国敷智郡細田村(静岡県浜松市)の庄屋石塚司馬右衛門の次男。天明6(1786)年同国大谷村の庄屋内山真竜に,寛政1(1789)年には松坂の本居宣長に入門。京都へ随行するほど晩年の宣長には信頼された。宣長の上代国語研究に実証的な裏付けを加え,仮名用法についての著作『古言清濁考』(1801),『仮名遣奥山道』(1798年序文)や古典注釈書などをものした。当時その『清濁考』を「宣長が説に協へるを正とし,其説に違へるは古書といへども不正とせり。古へを誣るの甚しきにあらずや」(荒木田久老『信濃漫録』)と難じられることもあったが,万葉仮名の使い分け法について多くの新事実を解明し得た。<参考文献>小山正『石塚竜麿の研究』

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