Okuda Yorijō

Japanese: 奥田頼杖 - おくだ・らいじょう

Year of death: 5th August 1849 (21st September 1849)
Year of birth: Unknown. A Shingaku scholar from the end of the Edo period. His name was Zairyu, and he was commonly known as Juta. He was nicknamed Yorizō because he had a weak leg and used a walking stick. He was born in Kusaka Village, Miyoshi County, Bingo Province (Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture) as the son of Hiroshima feudal lord Okuda Zensuke. He studied Shingaku under Kamikawa Kisui in Kyoto, and became the first head of Kanshinsha, which was established in Hiroshima around Bunka 11 (1814). Yorizō inherited Kisui's theory of Shingaku, which was based on Neo-Confucianism, and regarded Shingaku as an ethical movement, striving to educate the people through Taoist teachings. He was invited not only to Hiroshima, but also to Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo, where he gave lectures and influenced many people, but especially from Bunsei 8 (1825) onwards, he frequently toured the territory of the Hagi domain (Yamaguchi Prefecture), leaving a significant mark on the education of the people of the territory. <Works> "Stories of Shingaku Do" <References> Ishikawa Ken "A Study of the History of Sekimon Shingaku"

(Mitsuyoshi Yoneyama)

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

Japanese:

没年：嘉永2.8.5(1849.9.21)
生年：生年不詳
幕末の心学者。名は在中,通称寿太。脚が悪く杖を用いたので,頼杖と号した。広島藩士奥田善介の子として備後国三次郡日下村(広島県三次市)で生まれる。京都で上河淇水に心学を学び,文化11(1814)年ごろ広島に設立された歓心舎の第1世舎主となる。頼杖は朱子学を根拠とする淇水の心学説を継承し,心学を倫理運動ととらえ,道話による民衆教化に努めた。広島だけでなく,京都,大坂,江戸にも招かれ,道話を行い,多くの民衆を感化したが,特に文政8(1825)年以降しばしば萩藩(山口県)領内を巡講し,領民教化に大きな足跡を残した。<著作>『心学道の話』<参考文献>石川謙『石門心学史の研究』

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