Shiro Inoue - Inoue Shiro

Japanese: 井上士朗 - いのうえ・しろう

Year of death: Bunka 9.5.16 (1812.6.24)
Year of birth: 1742
A haiku poet of the mid-to-late Edo period. His first name was Shiro. Alternative names were Biwaen and Shujuso. He was from Moriyama, Owari (Aichi Prefecture). He was adopted into the Inoue family, a local doctor in Shinmachi, Nagoya, and became the third generation to succeed them. He was commonly known as Masaharu, and his medical name was Senan. He studied haiku under Kato Kyodai, Japanese classics under Motoori Norinaga, painting under Katsuno Hanko, and Heikekyoku under Ogino Kengyo, and was also known as the best doctor in the castle town. In haiku, a popular song goes, "Owari Nagoya is held by Shiro (the castle)," and he was highly esteemed as one of the three great doctors of the Kansei period, along with Natsume Shigemi and Suzuki Michihiko. His edited works are collected in "Biwaen Kushu" (1804), "Biwaen Kushu Goshu" (1808), "Biwaen Essays" (1810), and "Biwaen Shichibushu" (vols. 1-5). <References> Ichihashi Taku, "Inoue Shiro" (Meiji Shoin "Haiku Lectures" Volume 3)

(Sadahiko Kato)

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

Japanese:

没年：文化9.5.16(1812.6.24)
生年：寛保2(1742)
江戸中・後期の俳人。初号支朗。別号,枇杷園,朱樹叟。尾張(愛知県)守山の人。名古屋新町の町医井上家の養子となり,3代目を継ぐ。通称正春,医の号は専庵。俳諧を加藤暁台,国学を本居宣長,絵画を勝野范古,平曲を荻野検校に学び,医者としても城下一の評判があった。俳諧では,「尾張名古屋は士朗(城)で持つ」と俗謡にうたわれ,夏目成美,鈴木道彦と共に寛政三大家のひとりとして重んじられた。編著は『枇杷園句集』(1804),『枇杷園句集後集』(1808),『枇杷園随筆』(1810),『枇杷園七部集』(1～5編)に収められる。<参考文献>市橋鐸「井上士朗」(明治書院『俳句講座』3巻)

(加藤定彦)

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