Kinouchi Sekitei - Kinouchi Sekitei

Japanese: 木内石亭 - きのうち・せきてい

Year of death: Bunka 5.3.11 (1808.4.6)
Year of birth: December 1, 1725 (January 14, 1725)
A stone-loving man of the mid-Edo period. His childhood name was Ikuro, his given name was Shigeaki, he was commonly known as Koshige, and Sekitei was his pen name. He was born into the Shiki family, but inherited the Kiuchi family, his mother's family home in Yamada-go, Omi Province (Kitayamada, Kusatsu City). He had a love for rare stones from an early age, and from around the Horeki era (1751-1764) he studied botany under the product scholar Tsushima Joran, interacting with herbalists and product experts in Kyoto, Osaka, Edo, and other places, and was also active in product associations. He formed the Stone-loving Society, visited various places in search of rare stones, and actively collected and excavated them. Based on these collecting trips, he classified minerals in his own way, and wrote three volumes of "Ungenshi" (1772-1801), as well as "Kuraishi Mokuroku" (1811), which recorded 1,320 types of storehouse stones. He was an expert on stone-making, a popular method at the time, but he also took an academic approach, presented empirical views such as the theory that stones were made by arrowheads, and is considered to have been a pioneer in the study of mineralogy and archaeology in Japan. The descriptions of stone tools and magatama in Siebold's Japan are quoted from his work. In addition to the above, he also wrote Magatama Mondo, Tengu Tsumeishi Kidan, and Ryukotsuki. <References> Nakagawa Senzou's Complete Works of Ishi no Choja Kinouchitei, 6 volumes, Saito Tadashi's Kinouchitei

(Toshihiko Kikuchi)

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没年：文化5.3.11(1808.4.6)
生年：享保9.12.1(1725.1.14)
江戸中期の弄石家。幼名幾六,名は重暁,通称小繁,石亭は号。拾井家に生まれたが近江国山田郷(草津市北山田)の母の実家木内家を継いだ。幼いときから珍奇な石を好み,宝暦(1751～64)のころから物産学者津島如蘭に本草学を学び,京坂,江戸その他各地の本草家,物産家と交流し,物産会でも活躍。弄石社を結成し,奇石を各地に訪ね,収集採集も盛んに行った。これら収集歴訪をもとに独自に鉱石類を分類し,『雲根志』3編(1772～1801),また1320種の蔵石を記録した『蔵石目録』(1811)などを著した。当時流行の弄石の大家であるが,学問的な態度で,石鏃人工説をとるなど実証的見解を示し,わが国の鉱物学,考古学の先駆的研究をしたと評される。シーボルトの『日本』の石器,勾玉の記述は彼の業績の引用。上記のほか『曲玉問答』『天狗爪石奇談』『竜骨記』の著書がある。<参考文献>中川泉三編『石之長者木内石亭全集』全6巻,斎藤忠『木内石亭』

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