Katsurako Village - Katsurakoson

A scholar of Chinese literature. His name was Isuro. He was from Niitsu, Niigata Prefecture. He took the name Komura after his hometown, Fukushimagata. Born into a family of scholars of Japanese classics and Chinese classics, he had a deep knowledge of Japanese and Chinese classics from an early age. He moved to Tokyo and entered the English department of Tokyo Senmon Gakko (the predecessor to Waseda University), and after graduating in 1892 (Meiji 25), he was invited by the Japan Newspaper Company as a visiting associate. He then traveled to China, where he studied calligraphy, paintings, and ceramics, and was known as a collector and connoisseur of them. He first held positions at Toyo University and Kokugakuin University, and later became a professor at Waseda University, where he lectured on Chinese poetry and prose. In the Chinese poetry world, he opposed the Qing poetry school led by Mori Shuntou and others, and attracted attention by reciting poems from the Han and Wei dynasties along with Kokubu Seigai and Ishida Toryo. In addition to being highly regarded as a teacher of poetry by Mori Ogai, he was also friends with such Negishi school writers as Masaoka Shiki, Miyake Setsurei, Riku Katsunan, and Nakamura Fusetsu, and recited poems with Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who were in exile during the Qing Dynasty's Bohtsu Coup. His book "Annotations of Chinese Classics" was widely welcomed in the academic world and has long been acclaimed as a masterpiece. His other books include "Comments on Chinese Poetry from the Past."

[Yoshihiro Murayama]

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漢文学者。名は五十郎。新潟県の新津(にいつ)の人。郷里の福島潟にちなんで湖村と号した。国学、漢学の家に生まれ早くから和漢の学に造詣(ぞうけい)が深かった。上京して東京専門学校（早稲田(わせだ)大学の前身）専修英語科に入り、1892年（明治25）卒業して日本新聞社に客員社友として招かれた。その後、中国に渡り、書画陶器の研究を行い、その収集家、鑑賞家としても知られた。初め東洋大学、国学院大学に職を奉じ、のち早稲田大学教授となり漢詩文を講じた。漢詩壇では、森春濤(しゅんとう)らの清(しん)詩派に対抗し、国分青厓(こくぶせいがい)、石田東陵(とうりょう)らとともに漢魏(かんぎ)の詩を高唱して注目された。森鴎外(おうがい)から作詩の師として重んじられたほか、正岡子規(しき)、三宅雪嶺(みやけせつれい)、陸羯南(くがかつなん)、中村不折(ふせつ)ら根岸派文士と親交があり、清朝戊戌(ぼじゅつ)の政変で亡命中の康有為(こうゆうい)、梁啓超(りょうけいちょう)とも詩を唱和している。著書『漢籍解題』は広く学界に迎えられ、久しく名著の誉れがあった。著書にはほかに『歴代漢詩評釈』がある。

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