Ruan Ji -

A Chinese scholar from the Three Kingdoms Wei dynasty. His courtesy name was Sizong. He was from the Weishi clan of Chenliu Commandery (Henan Province). He is known as the leader of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove." He was from a noble family of the Later Han dynasty. His father, Ruan Yu (?-212), was one of the Seven Sons of the Jian'an Dynasty and served Cao Cao. Ruan Ji's self-concealment, his love of alcohol and eccentric behavior, had the backbone of Laozi and Zhuangzi thought, but he was also riddled with inner anguish. In the late Wei dynasty, the influence of the Sima clan, who would later establish the royal family of Jin, gradually expanded, and a political crisis erupted with the change of dynasty. Sima had a favorable relationship with Ruan Ji, and Ruan Ji also served as an infantry colonel, but the ugliness of people competing for power deepened Ruan Ji's sense of despair and prompted him to reach a fundamental understanding of Laozi and Zhuangzi thought. "The Biography of the Great Teacher" and "The Treatise on Taoism and Zhuangzi" are his ideological works, and the 80-plus poems in the "Poems in Memory of the Emperor," which became the forerunner of later serial poems, are the confession of a lonely soul.

[Tetsuo Naruse January 19, 2016]

"Matsumoto Yukio, 'The Life and Nostalgic Poems of Nguyen Ji' (1977, Mokujisha)" ▽ "Yoshikawa Kojiro, 'On the Nostalgic Poems of Nguyen Ji' (Iwanami Bunko)"

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中国、三国魏(ぎ)の文人。字(あざな)は嗣宗(しそう)。陳留郡尉氏（河南省）の人。「竹林(ちくりん)の七賢」の領袖(りょうしゅう)として知られている。後漢(ごかん)の名門豪族の出身。父の阮瑀(げんう)（？―212）は、建安七子の一人で、曹操(そうそう)に仕えた。阮籍の酒と奇行の自己韜晦(じことうかい)は、老荘思想をバックボーンにしているが、内的苦渋にまみれたものであった。魏末社会は、のちに晋(しん)の王室を開く司馬氏の勢力がしだいに拡大し、王朝交代に伴う政治的危機が噴出した。司馬氏は阮籍に対して好意的であり、彼も歩兵校尉の官についたりしたが、権力を巡る人間の醜悪は、阮籍の絶望感を深め、老荘思想への根源的な到達を促した。「大人(たいじん)先生伝」や「達荘論」はその思想的著作であり、後世の連作詩の先駆となった「詠懐詩」八十数首は孤独な魂の表白である。

［成瀬哲生　2016年1月19日］

『松本幸男著『阮籍の生涯と詠懐詩』（1977・木耳社）』▽『吉川幸次郎著『阮籍の「詠懐詩」について』（岩波文庫）』

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