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A renga master in the mid-Muromachi period. He was called Kokanken and Soenbo. Born to the Inawashiro family, a prominent Aizu clan, he studied under Shinkei, who lived in the Kanto region, in his youth and was greatly influenced by him. He went to Kyoto around 1475 (Bunmei 7) and, with the support of Sogi, began his career as a renga master called Soharu, but later changed his name to Kanezai. In 1489 (Entoku 1), he was appointed as the magistrate of the Kitano Kaisho and master of the school, and together with Sogi and his disciples, he compiled the Shinsen Tsukubashu (1495). In his later years, he mainly lived in the Kanto region, and passed away in Koga, Shimousa Province (Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture). He is estimated to have died at the age of 59. His works are characterized by fresh, sharp sensibility and intellectual expressions, but he also wrote a poem with a mysterious atmosphere, such as the opening line of "The Karasaki Cape of Shiga dawns in the mist" with "A bell rings on the Nagareyama mountain on an autumn night." His collections of poems include "Sonochiri" Volumes 1 to 4, and his renga treatises include "Shinkei Sozu Teikin," "Renga Entoku Sho," "Wakakusayama," "Baikunshu," and others. His heir, Shishi Kanezumi, served the Date family, and his descendant, Kanenyo, and his descendants continued to serve as renga masters for the Date family until the end of the Edo period.

[Kito Saizō]

“Kinjiro Kaneko, “Rengashi Kanzaidenko” (1962, Sakurakaedesha)”

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室町中期の連歌師(れんがし)。耕閑軒、相園坊と称した。会津の名族猪苗代(いなわしろ)家の出で、青年時代に関東流寓(りゅうぐう)中の心敬(しんけい)に師事して、多大の影響を受けた。1475年（文明7）ごろ上洛(じょうらく)し、宗祇(そうぎ)の支援を得て連歌師宗春として活躍を開始したが、のち兼載と改名した。89年（延徳1）北野会所奉行(ぶぎょう)、宗匠(そうしょう)に就任、宗祇およびその門下たちとともに、『新撰莵玖波集(しんせんつくばしゅう)』（1495）を編集した。晩年は主として関東に在住し、下総国(しもうさのくに)古河(こが)（茨城県古河市）に没した。享年は59歳と推定されている。その作品は、新鮮で鋭い感覚の句や知的な表現において特色を有するが、「霧に明けゆく志賀のから崎」の前句に、「秋の夜のながらの山に鐘なりて」と付けた、幽玄な風趣を有する句も詠んでいる。その句集に、『園塵(そののちり)』第1集～第4集、連歌論書に、『心敬僧都庭訓(そうずていきん)』『連歌延徳(えんとく)抄』『若草山』『梅薫(ばいくん)集』その他がある。その嗣子(しし)兼純(けんじゅん)は伊達(だて)家に仕え、その子孫の兼如(けんにょ)以後は代々、伊達家の連歌師として幕末に及んでいる。

［木藤才蔵］

『金子金治郎著『連歌師兼載伝考』（1962・桜楓社）』

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