Yu Ji

Japanese: 虞集 - ぐしゅう（英語表記）Yu Ji

[Born] 1272
[Died] 1348
A Chinese literary figure of the Yuan Dynasty. Born in Chongren (Jiangxi Province). His pen name was Bosheng. His pen names were Daoyuan and Shaoan. His posthumous name was Wenjing. In 1297, he went to Dadu (Beijing) to serve as an official, and became a professor of Confucianism in Dadu Road and a doctor of Taichang. In 1328, when Emperor Wenzong ascended to the throne and established Kuizhang Pavilion as an academic institution, he became a trusted scholar and presided over the compilation of the Great Classic of Jingshi and the Annals of Zuzong. As a poet, he is known as one of the four great poets of the Yuan Dynasty, along with Yang Zai, Fan Fang, and Jie Jiesi. He is said to have studied the structure of Tang poetry the best, and his writing is said to be the foremost of the Yuan Dynasty. In Japan, he was often read by the poet-monks of the Five Mountains during the Muromachi period. A collection of poems and essays called "Doen Gakukoroku."

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Japanese:

[生]至元9(1272)
[没]至正8(1348)
中国，元の文学者。崇仁 (江西省) の人。字，伯生。号，道園，邵庵 (しょうあん) 。諡は文靖。大徳1 (1297) 年大都 (北京) に出て仕官，大都路儒学教授から太常博士となり，天暦1 (1328) 年文宗が即位して学問所として奎章閣 (けいしょうかく) を創設すると，その侍書学士となって信任され，『経世大典』『祖宗実録』などの編纂を主宰した。詩人としては，楊載，范ほう (はんほう) ，掲けい斯 (けいけいし) とともに「虞楊范掲」とも「元詩四大家」とも呼ばれるが，なかでも唐詩の骨格を最もよく学んでいるとされ，文章も元代の第一人者といわれる。日本でも室町時代，五山の詩僧によく読まれた。詩文集『道園学古録』。

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