Irokawa Junior High School - Irokawa Minaka

Japanese: 色川三中 - いろかわ・みなか

Year of death: 23rd June 1855 (5th August 1855)
Year of birth: 24 June 1801 (3 August 1801)
A scholar of Japanese classics from the end of the Edo period. His childhood name was Toyotaro, later called Hideaki, and he was commonly known as Keisuke or Saburobei. He was known by the names Tokai and Zuikaen. He was the eldest son of Hidee and Tsumatomi, drug merchants from Tsuchiura, Hitachi Province (Ibaraki Prefecture). His family was once prosperous enough to have served as a supplier to the shogunate for soy sauce, but when he took over after his father's death in 1825, the family was bankrupt, and it took about 10 years to rebuild it. After the Tenpo period, his efforts at austerity and business dedication bore fruit, and he succeeded in reviving the family business. He had to wait until his 30s to begin full-scale academic training, but he first visited Hirata Atsutane, and then in 1836 he became a student of Tachibana Moribe in Edo. He built up an extensive library and devoted himself mainly to research into the history of ancient institutions, all while juggling his family business with his academic pursuits. Although he did not show talent in poetry and prose, he made many achievements in the areas of compiling ancient documents, taxation, and weights and measures, and had a considerable influence on later scholars of Japanese classics. <Works> "Denrei Zukai Sho" ("Nihon Keizai Sosho" Vol. 32), "Katori Bunsho San" <References> Nobuhiko Nakai, "Research on the Three Middle Schools of Irokawa"

(Robert Campbell)

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

Japanese:

没年：安政2.6.23(1855.8.5)
生年：享和1.6.24(1801.8.3)
幕末の国学者。幼名豊太郎,のち英明といい,通称は圭輔または三郎兵衛。東海,瑞霞園と号した。常陸国(茨城県)土浦土着の薬商英恵,妻富の長男。家は,かつて幕府の醤油御用を務めるほど羽振りがよかったが,文政8(1825)年,父の死去により継いだ時点では破産状態で,その再建に約10年の歳月を費やした。天保期以降,生活の緊縮と商売精進が実を結び,家業再興に成功。かくて本格的な学問修業は30代まで待たねばならなかったが,まず平田篤胤を訪ね,次いで天保7(1836)年には江戸の橘守部に入門。終始,家業と学芸を両立させながら,豊富な蔵書を築き,主に古代制度史研究に邁進した。歌文の才は発揮しなかったものの,古文書の編纂と税制,度量衡などについて多くの業績を残し,後進の国学者に少なからぬ影響をおよぼした。<著作>『田令図解抄』(『日本経済叢書』32巻),『香取文書纂』<参考文献>中井信彦『色川三中の研究』

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