Hisao Arakida

Japanese: 荒木田久老 - あらきだ・ひさおゆ

Year of death: Bunka 1.8.14 (1804.9.17)
Year of birth: Enkyo 3.11.21 (1747.1.1)
A Japanese scholar and poet of the mid-Edo period. His real surname was Watarai. His first name was Masayasu. He was known by the names Shuzo, Shudono, and Sai. His pen name was Isokien. He was adopted by Arakida Kuyo and appointed as the deputy chief priest of the Ise Inner Shrine. He was ranked as a junior fourth rank. In 1765, he went down to Edo and became a disciple of Kamo no Mabuchi, and was led to achieve great things by studying the songs in the Nihon Shoki and the Manyoshu. His representative works in this field are Nihon Shoki Kakai Tsukino Ochiha and Manyo Ko Tsukino Ochiha. Kuyo did not stay in one place, but expanded his sphere of activity by traveling to Yamato, Kawachi, and Shinano in search of ancient ruins and by forming friendships with Japanese scholars in Kyoto and Osaka. Due to his character, he was blessed with many friends and disciples, but he was inferior to Motoori Norinaga and others in terms of the precision of his arguments. However, many of his ambitious works are noteworthy. His family anthology includes the "Tsuki Ochiba Collection of Poems."

(Keichi Kubota)

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

Japanese:

没年：文化1.8.14(1804.9.17)
生年：延享3.11.21(1747.1.1)
江戸中期の国学者,歌人。本姓度会。初名正恭。主税,主殿,斎と称す。号五十槻園。荒木田久世の養子となって伊勢内宮権禰宜に補せられる。従四位下。明和2(1765)年に江戸へ下って賀茂真淵に入門,『日本書紀』の歌謡や『万葉集』の研究に導かれて業績を残す。この分野では『日本紀歌解槻乃落葉』や『万葉考槻落葉』が代表的著作である。久老は大和,河内,信濃と古代の遺跡を求めて行脚したり,京大坂の国学者と親交を結んだりと,1カ所にとどまることなく行動範囲を広げ,その性格から多くの知友・門人に恵まれたが,論証の緻密さの点で本居宣長らに一歩譲る。しかしその意欲的な著作には注目すべきものが多い。家集に『槻落葉歌集』がある。<参考文献>神宮司庁編『荒木田久老歌文集並伝記』

(久保田啓一)

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