Denzaemon Emura

...A Chinese poet of the mid-Edo period. Born in Kyoto. His given name was Shu, his pen name was Kimisaku, and he was commonly known as Denzaemon, and Hokkai was his pen name. He was the second son of the Confucian scholar Ito Ryushu, and was adopted into the prestigious Emura family, a Confucian scholar family in Kyoto. He is known as one of three scholar brothers, along with his elder brother Ito Kinri and younger brother Seida Danso. Both the Ito and Emura families were taught in Neo-Confucianism, but it was not a family tradition to strongly preach Neo-Confucianism, and Hokkai also became a Confucian scholar in the Gujo Domain of Mino Province following in his adoptive father's footsteps, but his activities were more inclined towards Chinese poetry and prose than Confucianism. He did not show any outstanding talent in the composition of poetry or prose, but rather taught poetry to many students at his private school, Shijodo, and wrote a history of Chinese poetry from ancient times to the present, called Nihon Shishi (1771), and compiled a wide range of Chinese poems by people of the time, called Nihon Shisen (1774). His main activities were enlightening and literary, and he played a major role in the spread of Chinese poetry in the Kami-gata region.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Emura Denzaemon" is listed below.

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…江戸中期の漢詩人。京都の人。名は綬，字は君錫，通称は伝左衛門，北海は号。儒者伊藤竜洲の次男に生まれ，京都の儒家の名門であった江村家の養子となった。兄の伊藤錦里，弟の清田儋叟（せいだたんそう）とともに学者3兄弟として知られる。伊藤家も江村家も家学は朱子学であったが，朱子学を強く宣布するという家風ではなく，北海も養父のあとをついで美濃郡上藩の儒官にはなったが，その活動は儒学よりも漢詩文に傾斜していた。それも詩文の実作にすぐれた才能を示したわけではなく，家塾の賜杖堂（しじようどう）において多くの門人に詩文を教授し，また上代から当代までの漢詩史《日本詩史》(1771)を著し，当時の人々の漢詩を広く採集した《日本詩選》(1774)を編纂するなどの，啓蒙･著述の活動に本領があり，上方に漢詩文が普及するうえで大きな役割を果たした。…

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