Nobukage Amano

Japanese: 天野信景 - あまの・さだかげ

Year of death: September 8, 18th year of the Kyoho era (October 15, 1733)
Year of birth: 25 September 1663 (25 October 1663)
A scholar of Japanese classics in the mid-Edo period. A samurai of the Nagoya (Owari) domain. After the death of his father Nobuyuki, he joined the Yoriai in 1684, was promoted to the rank of gun chief in 1715, and retired in 1730 at the age of 68. He studied under Deguchi Nobuyoshi and Yoshimi Yukikazu. In 1698, he was ordered by the domain lord Tokugawa Tsunamasa to take part in the compilation of the Owari Fudoki. Taking advantage of this leisurely position, he devoted his life to writing about the ethics and customs of Owari, gods, and classics in general, and produced a large number of compilations. The most representative of these is Shiojiri (over 170 volumes, completed in 1733, unpublished during the Edo period), which took him 35 years to compile. He said that he had compiled excerpts from Japanese and Chinese classics and information he had observed, "to be kept ready for leisure and remembrance," and that he had written them down as he had done, both in quantity and quality, and that his wide-ranging empirical investigations provided considerable inspiration to subsequent scholars of Japanese classics, including Tanikawa Shigeki.

(Robert Campbell)

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

Japanese:

没年：享保18.9.8(1733.10.15)
生年：寛文3.9.25(1663.10.25)
江戸中期の国学者。名古屋(尾張)藩士。父信幸の没後貞享1(1684)年に寄合に列し,正徳5(1715)年鉄砲頭昇進を経て,享保15(1730)年,68歳で致仕。出口延佳,吉見幸和らに師事。元禄11(1698)年に藩主徳川綱誠の命を受けて『尾張風土記』編纂に加わる。閑職を幸いに,尾張の人倫風土や神祇,古典全般にわたる著述に生涯をかけ,夥しい編著をものした。その代表は,35年を費やしまとめた『塩尻』(170巻余,1733年脱稿,江戸期には未刊)である。量質ともに江戸期随筆の横綱級というべく,和漢古典からの抄出や見聞を「閑暇遺忘に備ふべ」く列記したままと自らは述べるが,その多岐にわたる実証的考察は,谷川士清をはじめ,後続の国学者に少なからぬ示唆を与えた。<著作>『塩尻』(日本随筆大成新版3期13～16巻)

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