Miki Kato - Kato Umaki

Japanese: 加藤美樹 - かとう・うまき

Year of death: 10th June 1777 (14th July 1777)
Year of birth: 1721
A scholar of Japanese classics in the mid-Edo period. A disciple of Kamo no Mabuchi, he was the teacher of Ueda Akinari. He was commonly known as Daisuke, and Miki is also written as Umaki. His pen name was Seisha. He married the daughter of Kawazu Kuzu, who was the wife of Toda Ujifusa of the Ogaki Shinden Domain in Mino, and served Ujifusa under the name Kawazu Miki. He later left the Toda family and became a shogunate yoriki (police officer) and traveled between Edo and Kyoto and Osaka as a ward of Nijo Castle and Osaka Castle. He became a disciple of Mabuchi at the age of 26 in 1746 (Enkyo 3), and was counted among the four heavenly kings of the prefectural school along with Kato Chikage, Murata Harumi, and Kajitori Uohiko. Mabuchi had high hopes that he would be a successor to the study of the Kojiki along with Motoori Norinaga, but no writings on that subject remain. He had a close relationship with his disciple Ueda Akinari while he was in Osaka, and had a great influence on his academic thought. Many of his books were made public through Akinari's efforts. He died in 1777 while stationed at Nijo, and his funeral was conducted by Akinari and others. His family anthology includes the "Shizuya no Utashu" (1791), his classic commentaries include the "Ameya no Monogatari da Mikotoba" (1777) and the "Tosa Nikki Kai", and his essays include the "Seisha Zuihitsu". <References> Maruyama Toshio, "Kato Umaki" (People in the History of National Studies), Nakamura Yukihiko, "A Shallow Theory of the Legend of Ueda Akinari" ("Nakamura Yukihiko Collected Writings", Volume 12)

(Yoichi Iikura)

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

Japanese:

没年：安永6.6.10(1777.7.14)
生年：享保6(1721)
江戸中期の国学者。賀茂真淵門で上田秋成の師。通称大助,美樹は宇万伎とも表記する。号は静舎。美濃大垣新田藩の戸田氏房の江戸藩邸奥医師河津家娘葛の婿となり,河津美樹と称し氏房に仕えた。のち戸田家を致仕して幕府の大番与力となり,二条城・大坂城番として江戸と京坂の間を往復した。真淵入門は,延享3(1746)年の26歳のときで,加藤千蔭,村田春海,楫取魚彦と共に県門の四天王に数えられた。真淵には本居宣長と共に『古事記』研究の後継者たることを期待されていたが,その方面の著作は残らない。在坂中の弟子の上田秋成とは親しく交わり,その学問思想に大きな影響を与えた。彼の著書は多く秋成の力によって公にされた。安永6(1777)年,二条在番中に没し,秋成らが葬儀を執行した。家集に『しづやのうた集』(1791),古典注釈書に『雨夜物語だみことば』(1777),『土佐日記解』,随筆に『静舎随筆』がある。<参考文献>丸山季夫「加藤宇万伎」(『国学史上の人々』),中村幸彦「上田秋成伝浅説」(『中村幸彦著述集』12巻)

(飯倉洋一)

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