Hideaki Kawamura - Hideaki Kawamura

Japanese: 河村秀穎 - かわむら・ひでかい

Year of death: 15 July 1783 (Tenmei 3 June 16)
Year of birth: Kyoho 3, leap year 10 (1718)
A Japanese classicist of the mid-Edo period. A samurai of the Owari (Nagoya) domain. His first name was Hideoki. He was commonly known as Kumenoshin and Shichiro. His pen names were Rakujukan and Kimiguri. His father was Hideyo, and his younger brother Hidene. He studied under Amano Nobukage, a samurai of the Owari domain who carried out positivist research, and Yoshimi Yukikazu, a Suika Shinto scholar. He studied Japanese classics with his younger brother Hidene, his son Hidetoshi, and Hidene's sons Ingen and Masune, and made chronicle studies his family teaching. He co-authored "Nihon Shoki Sensha Ben." He was knowledgeable about the Ritsuryo system, and wrote "Rekidai Tokei Ko" by order of the domain. In 1773, he established the "Bunkai Shoko" (Bunkai Library), which housed a large collection of books. He wrote many books on ancient legal systems, such as "Ryo Gikai Hyogo," "Rakuju Hitsuso," and "Shusho Jingi Ryō Shūkai."

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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

Japanese:

没年：天明3.6.16(1783.7.15)
生年：享保3.閏10(1718)
江戸中期の国学者。尾張(名古屋)藩士。初名は秀興。通称久米之進,七郎。号は楽寿館,君栗。父は秀世,弟に秀根がいる。尾張藩士で実証主義的研究を行った天野信景や垂加神道家である吉見幸和に学んだ。弟秀根,子の秀俊,秀根の子殷根,益根と共に国学を研究し,紀典学を家学とした。秀根との共著に『日本書紀撰者弁』がある。律令制に詳しく,藩命により『歴代徒刑考』を著す。安永2(1773)年「文会書庫」を設立,多数の蔵書を収めた。『令義解備考』『楽寿筆叢』『首書神祇令集解』など古代の法制に関する著書が多い。

(白石良夫)

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