Hiromitsu Kataoka

Japanese: 片岡寛光 - かたおか・ひろみつ

Year of death: Tempo 9.1.15 (1838.2.9)
Year of birth: Year of birth unknown. A poet of the late Edo period. Commonly known as Shusuke or Gontaro. Also known by pen names Ikushien, Keiman, Tsutagakiuchi, etc. Son of Ishasho Takamitsu. Adopted into the Kataoka family, a village lord in Sakumacho, Kanda, Edo. Studied waka poetry under Kiyohara Yufu, Murata Harumi, and Murata Harumon. He seems to have maintained a considerable status in the Edo school of poetry, but only fragmentary materials remain. His book, "Ima wa Mukashi," is valuable as it conveys anecdotes about Mishima Jikkan and Gamo Kimpei, who were close to Hiromitsu. It is said that in his later years he went virtually insane and stopped composing waka. A handwritten poem by him is preserved in the Seikado Bunko Library. <References> Maruyama Toshio, "Memorandum of Kataoka Hiromitsu, a Poet in Edo Kanda," "Anecdotes from the Last Years of Mishima Jikkan" ("People in the History of National Learning")

(Keichi Kubota)

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Japanese:

没年：天保9.1.15(1838.2.9)
生年：生年不詳
江戸後期の歌人。通称周輔,権太郎。号郁子園,桂満,蔦垣内など。医師所尊光の息。江戸神田佐久間町の里正片岡家の養子となる。清原雄風,村田春海,村田春門に和歌を学ぶ。江戸派歌壇で相応の地位を保ったらしいが断片的な資料しか残っていない。その著『いまはむかし』は寛光周辺の三島自寛や蒲生君平らの逸話を伝えて貴重。晩年は発狂同然となり和歌も詠まなくなったという。静嘉堂文庫に自筆詠草が伝存する。<参考文献>丸山季夫「江戸神田の歌人片岡寛光覚書」「三島自寛晩年の逸事」(『国学史上の人々』)

(久保田啓一)

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