Kada Arimaro

Japanese: 荷田在満 - かだのありまろ

Year of death: 1751.9.23
Year of birth: 1706
A scholar of Japanese classics in the mid-Edo period, and a member of the family of courtiers and monks. His real surname was Hagura. His pen name was Mochiyuki. He was commonly known as Higashi (Fuji) Noshin. He was also called Nagano University. His pen names were Ninryousai and Mitsumine. His father was Taga Takatoshi, a doctor in Fushimi (Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City), and his sister was Kada Soushi, a famous female poet. His uncle was Kada Harumitsu, a shrine official at Fushimi Inari Shrine, and since Harumitsu had no children, he was quickly adopted by Harumitsu and took over the family business. In 1728 (Kyoho 13), at the age of 23, he went to Edo at Harumitsu's request (said to be about the founding of a national school), and served the shogunate, mainly engaged in researching courtiers and monks ... When Emperor Sakuramachi re-established the Daijo-e ceremony in 1738, he received an internal order from the shogunate to go to Kyoto, where he visited the court officials to question the rules, and compiled them into nine volumes of the Daijo-e Ritual Instruments, which he reported to the shogunate. The following year, at the request of his disciples, he compiled an excerpt from it and published it as two volumes of the Daijo-e Benmo, which caused the court to question him and he was ordered to stay home for 100 days. In 1742, he was ordered by Munetake to write the Eight Treatises on the National Poetry, which was groundbreaking in its assertion that waka poetry is not for practical use but is a play on words and flowery language. However, he disagreed with Munetake's view that poetry is a tool for governing the way and an aid in teaching and admonishing, and a dispute arose between the three, including Kamo no Mabuchi (the dispute on the national poetry). In 1746, he recommended Mabuchi as his successor and retired from the Tayasu family. The reasons given for this include aftereffects of the Confinement Incident, a feud with Munetake, or Zainichi's health condition, but the details are unknown. Zainichi's academic achievements lie in his use of scientific research methods in the study of court and ritsuryo laws, and his analysis in "Kokuka Hachiron" was an application of this method. His other works include pseudo-classical tales such as "Shirozaru Monogatari" and "Ochiai Monogatari." <References> Usami Kizoya, "Research on Early Modern Poetry Theory"

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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Japanese:

没年：宝暦1.8.4(1751.9.23)
生年：宝永3(1706)
江戸中期の国学者,有職故実家。本姓,羽倉氏。字,持之。通称は東(藤)之進。また長野大学とも称した。号は仁良斎,三峯。父は伏見(京都市伏見区)の医師多賀高惟,妹に女流歌人として著名な荷田蒼生子がいる。伯父は伏見稲荷祠官荷田春満で,春満に子がなかったので,はやく春満の養子となって家職を継いだ。享保13(1728)年23歳のとき,春満の意(国学校創設のことといわれる)を受けて江戸に下り,幕府に仕え,主として有職故実の調査に従事した。やがて田安宗武に仕えるようになり,宗武の命を受けて有職,律令研究の書『本朝度制略考』『令三弁』『羽倉考』などの著述をなした。元文3(1738)年の桜町天皇の大嘗会再興に際して幕府から内命を受けて上京,朝廷有司の間に往来してその規式を質し,『大嘗会儀式具釈』9巻にまとめて幕府に報告した。翌年,門人に求められてそれを抄録,『大嘗会便蒙』2巻として出版したため,朝廷から不審をいい立てられ,幕府から100日の閉門を命じられた。寛保2(1742)年,宗武の命を受けて執筆した『国歌八論』は,和歌を実用的なものとせず詞花言葉をもてあそぶものであるとする主張が画期的であった。しかし歌を治道の具,教誡の助とみなす宗武の見解と対立し,賀茂真淵を加えた3者の間で論争が起こった(国歌八論論争)。延享3(1746)年,真淵を後任に推して田安家を退いた。理由は,閉門事件の後遺症であるとか宗武との確執であるとか,また在満の健康状態であるとか,さまざまにいわれているが,詳細は不明である。在満の学問上の功績は,有職,律令研究において科学的研究方法をもってしたことにあり,『国歌八論』における分析もその応用であった。著作にはほかに『白猿物語』『落合物語』といった擬古物語もある。<参考文献>宇佐美喜三八『近世歌論の研究』

(白石良夫)

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