Naoyoshi Kumagai - Naoyoshi Kumagai

A poet of the late Edo period. A samurai of Iwakuni Domain, Suo (Yamaguchi Prefecture). Commonly known as Yasohachi, later Sukezaemon. His pen name was Choshuntei. He studied waka poetry under Kagawa Kageki (Keien), but fled the domain after becoming involved in a dispute over Kageki's Baigetsudo stipend, and went to Osaka to devote himself to the study of waka poetry. Of Kageki's 1,000 disciples, he was always placed at the top of the Ten Philosophers and the Four Heavenly Kings, and was known for his moderate style of poetry. In addition to his works "Kokinshu Seigi Soron Hochu" and "Kokinshu Ronben," which he wrote in which he argued with Hatta Tomonori over the interpretation of the preface to Kageki's "Kokinshu Seigi," and his family anthologies "Ura no Shiogai" and "Kokinshu Shui," he also wrote "Ryōjin Kōshō," a collection of poems that he enjoyed, and passed away on August 8, 1862, at the age of 81. His posthumous name was Fushikian Kōichi Koji.

[Masanori Kanekiyo]

Winter has come to stay in the mountains. All night long, the pine fire is burning, and I put on my sandals. Winter has come.

"The Life of Kumagai Naoyoshi, by Kanekiyo Masanori (1965, Dosho Publishing Association)"

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江戸後期の歌人。周防(すおう)（山口県）岩国藩士。通称は八十八(やそはち)、のち助左衛門。号は長春亭。香川景樹(かげき)（桂園(けいえん)）に和歌を学び、景樹の梅月堂扶持(ふち)争いにかかわって脱藩し、大坂に出て歌学に専念した。景樹門人1000人のうち、十哲といい四天王といい双璧(そうへき)というなかでかならず筆頭に置かれ、穏健な作風をもって知られる。景樹の『古今和歌集正義』序の解釈で八田知紀(はったとものり)と論争した『古今集正義総論補註(ほちゅう)』『同論弁』の歌論書、家集『浦の汐貝(しおがい)』『同拾遺』などのほか、和楽を好んで『梁塵後抄(りょうじんこうしょう)』の著もある。文久(ぶんきゅう)2年8月8日没、81歳。法名は不識庵香一居士(ふしきあんこういちこじ)。

［兼清正徳］

　山居冬到　終夜(よもすがら)まつのほだ火を焼(たき)明しわらぐつ打ん冬はきにけり

『兼清正徳著『熊谷直好伝』（1965・同書刊行会）』

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