Hiroki Ohno

Japanese: 大野広城 - おおの・ひろき

Year of death: Tempo 12.9.11 (1841.10.25)
Year of birth: 1797
A samurai and scholar of Japanese classics in the mid-Edo period. He was nicknamed Gonnojo, and also had the pseudonyms Shinobuken and Shinobuya. He was from Edo. He was a member of the Shoju-gumi (small ten-man group) of the shogunate, and published "Seishoushi" (first part published in 1840, second part published in 1841), which recorded the prohibited matters such as the shogunate's ceremonies and samurai laws, and "Denkyobukuro" (first part published in 1837, second part published in 1839) in small, portable folded volumes. He was accused of publishing the inner workings of the shogunate without permission, and was entrusted to the shogunate's Shikibu Shoyu (junior assistant minister) and died in confinement in Ayabe, Tanba Province (Kyoto Prefecture), which was Kuki's territory. He also wrote "Togoku Furyu", "Ryuei Jiraku", and "Taihei Nenpyo".

(Toshihiko Uda)

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Japanese:

没年：天保12.9.11(1841.10.25)
生年：寛政9(1797)
江戸中期の武士,国学者。通称を権之丞といい,忍軒,忍之屋などと号した。江戸の人。幕府小十人組の士で,幕府の儀式典礼や武家諸法度など禁制の事項を記した『青標紙』(前編1840年,後編41年刊),『殿居嚢』(前編1837年,後編39年刊)を,携帯に便利な小型の折本にして公刊し,許可なく幕府の内情を公表した科で筆禍を受け,九鬼式部少輔へお預けとなり,九鬼の領地丹波国綾部(京都府)に幽閉中没した。ほかに『東国風流』『柳営事略』『泰平年表』などの著がある。

(宇田敏彦)

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