Takeki Owada

Japanese: 大和田建樹 - おおわだ・たけき

Year of death: October 1, 1910 (Meiji 43)
Year of birth: April 29, 1857 (May 22, 1857)
A Meiji-era poet, tanka writer, and Japanese literature scholar. His father was Mizugumo and his mother was Eiko. He was born in Uwajima, Iyo (Ehime Prefecture). After attending a domain school, he graduated from Hiroshima Foreign Language School. He moved to Tokyo in 1880 (Meiji 13) and studied Japanese literature almost entirely on his own. He served as a lecturer in the classical studies course at the Faculty of Letters of the Imperial University and a professor at the Higher Normal School. He made his name as a writer with his anthology of poems, "Poet's Spring" (1887), and published many anthologies of songs, including "Railway Songs" (1900). He also wrote "History of Meiji Literature" (1894), in which he included a section on English linguistics, listing the titles of English books that were read by those studying English in the early Meiji period, and which remains interesting even from today's perspective. His other works include "History of Great Japanese Literature" (1899) and "Owada Takeki Poetry Collection" (1912).

(Yosuke Furutashima)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治43.10.1(1910)
生年：安政4.4.29(1857.5.22)
明治時代の詩人,歌人,国文学者。父は水雲,母は栄子。伊予(愛媛)宇和島生まれ。藩校を経て,広島外国語学校卒。明治13(1880)年に上京し,ほぼ独学で国文学を研究。帝大文科大古典講習科講師,高等師範学校教授などを歴任。詞華集『詩人の春』(1887)などで文名をあげ,『鉄道唱歌』(1900)をはじめ,多数の唱歌集を刊行した。また,『明治文学史』(1894)を著し,特に英語学の節を設けて,明治初期,英学を修める者たちが読んでいた英文書の書目を掲げるなど,今日の目からみても興味深い記述を行っている。ほかの著書に『日本大文学史』(1899),『大和田建樹歌集』(1912)などもある。

(古田島洋介)

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