"Etsumando Diary" - Etsumando Diary

...After being a buyer of land, he became a shinshi at the age of 51, and an inspector during the First Sino-Japanese War. His Yushido Diary is a detailed record of his research and critique of about 1,000 books as a scholar, written between 1854 (the 4th year of the Xianfeng era) and 1894 (the 20th year of the Guangxu era), his literary interactions as a local notable and a mid-ranking bureaucrat in Tokyo, his various incomes and expenditures, the Taiping Rebellion and subsequent political and social trends, etc. [Taka Matsumura]...

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…売田買官のあと51歳で進士，日清戦争時には監察官。その《越縵堂日記》は1854年(咸豊4)から94年(光緒20)までの間に，彼が学者として約1000種の書籍の考証･批評を，また在郷の名士ないしは在京の中級官僚として，文学を通しての交際，さまざまな収入と支出の実態，太平天国の乱とその後の政治社会の動向などを，綿密に書き綴った記録である。【松村 昂】。…

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