Kan Chazan

Japanese: 菅茶山 - かん・ちゃざん

Year of death: 1827.10.3 (Bunsei 10.8.13)
Year of birth: 1748.2.29
A Chinese poet of the mid- to late Edo period. Originally of the Suganami clan, he changed his surname to Suga. His given name was Shinshu, his pen name was Reikyo, and he was commonly known as Taichu (or Taichu). His pen name was Chazan, and his posthumous name was Bunkyo Sensei. He was the eldest son of Suganami Kyusuke (pen name Chohei), who worked in agriculture and sake brewing in Kannabe, Bingo Province (Hiroshima Prefecture). In 1766 (Meiwa 3), at the age of 19, he went to Kyoto and studied Zhu Xi philosophy under Nawa Rodo. After that, he often traveled to Kamigata and was friends with poets from the Kontonshisha Society in Osaka, such as Yori Shunsui, Katsushikin, and Nakai Chikuzan. In the early Tenmei era, at the age of 34, he opened a private school in his hometown of Kannabe, called Koba Yuhi Murasha, and became involved in educating village children. This later became Gojuku, became widely known, and was renamed Renjuku, with Rai Sanyo, Hojo Kasutei, and others serving as school leaders. As a poet, he excelled in realistic rural poetry in the style of Song poetry, and was loved by people for his village master-like personality. His poetry and prose collections include "Kouyou Yuuhi Sonsha Shi" and his essays include "Fude no Susabi." <References> Hideo Fujikawa, "Suga Chazan and Rai Sanyo," "Suga Chazan"

(Ibi High School)

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Japanese:

没年：文政10.8.13(1827.10.3)
生年：寛延1.2.2(1748.2.29)
江戸中・後期の漢詩人。本来は菅波氏だが,修姓して菅。名は晋帥,字は礼卿,通称は太中(太仲とも)。茶山は号。諡を文恭先生。備後国(広島県)神辺で農業と酒造業を営んだ菅波久助(号を樗平)の長男。明和3(1766)年19歳で上洛し,那波魯堂に入門して朱子学を修めた。以後,しばしば上方に遊び,頼春水,葛子琴,中井竹山など大坂の混沌詩社の詩人たちと交遊した。天明初年34歳のころ故郷神辺に黄葉夕陽村舎と名付ける私塾を開き,村童の教育に携わることになった。これはのちに郷塾となり広く知られるようになって名も廉塾と改め,頼山陽,北条霞亭などが塾頭を務めた。詩人としては宋詩風の写実的な田園風俗詩を得意とし,村夫子然とした人柄で人々に親しまれた。詩文集に『黄葉夕陽村舎詩』,随筆に『筆のすさび』などがある。<参考文献>富士川英郎『菅茶山と頼山陽』,『菅茶山』

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