Nobumitsu Kurihara

Japanese: 栗原信充 - くりはら・のぶみつ

Year of death: October 28, 1870 (November 21, 1870)
Year of birth: July 20, 1794 (August 15, 1794)
A former family member of the late Edo period. Childhood name: Yotaro. Character: Hakunin. Commonly known as Magonojo. Pen name: Ryuan. As he was a member of the Kai Genji clan, he took the surname Takeda in his later years. Through his father Kazutsune, who served as Oku no Uhitsu (Second Lady of the Palace) in the Edo Shogunate, he learned Japanese classics from his father's colleague Yashiro Hirokata and Hirokata's acquaintance Hirata Atsutane, and Confucianism from Shibano Kuriyama. From an early age, he was allowed to browse the vast collection of books in Hirokata's Shinobazu Bunko library, and after coming of age, he participated in the research for the Kokin Yoran, which Hirokata compiled by order of the Shogunate, and was blessed with an environment in which he could gain a wide range of knowledge. He traveled around the country to visit materials and interact with various families in his research, and aimed to learn to understand cultural artifacts by seeing them for himself. Later, when Hirokata died of illness, the production of the Kokin Yoran was halted, and he published the accumulated knowledge up to that point in the form of his own work. His works on arms and horse equipment, such as "Armor Diagrams," "Sword Diagrams," "Arrow Diagrams," "Weapon Sleeve Mirrors," "Military Records," and "Sword Accessories Notes," were highly valued as educational books for samurai at the end of the Edo period.

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：明治3.10.28(1870.11.21)
生年：寛政6.7.20(1794.8.15)
江戸後期の故実家。幼名,陽太郎。字,伯任。通称は孫之丞。号は柳庵。甲斐源氏であることから晩年は武田姓を名乗る。江戸幕府の奥御右筆を務めた父和恒の関係で,父の同僚屋代弘賢と弘賢の知己平田篤胤から国学を,柴野栗山から儒学を学んだ。幼少より弘賢の不忍文庫の膨大な蔵書の閲覧を許され,成人後は弘賢が幕命により編纂していた『古今要覧』の調査に加わるなど,広く知識を得る環境に恵まれた。全国を巡って資料を訪ね諸家と交わる調査によって,実見によって文物を理解する学を旨とした。のち弘賢の病死により『古今要覧』の製作は中止,それまでの蓄積は自著という形で世に出した。特に力を注いだ武具,馬具類に関する著作『甲冑図式』『刀剣図式』『弓箭図式』『武器袖鏡』『兵家紀聞』『装剣備考』などは幕末武士の教養書として重用された。<参考文献>上田淑子「文学遺跡巡礼」(『学苑』9巻1号)

(白石良夫)

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