Rei Arakida

Japanese: 荒木田麗 - あらきだ・れい

Year of death: Bunka 3.1.12 (1806.3.1)
Year of birth: March 10, 1732 (April 4, 1732)
A literary figure of the mid-Edo period. The daughter of Arakida Taketo, the assistant chief priest of the Naiku Shrine of Ise, she was adopted at the age of 13 by her uncle, Keitoku Takeyuki, the priest of the Geku Shrine. She grew up in a literary family and acquired a thorough knowledge of Japanese, Chinese and Buddhist theories. From the time she married Keitoku Iemasa at the age of 22, she focused on renga (linked verse) and prose poetry to develop her talents. In her 40s, she began a full-fledged literary career. Her historical stories, such as "Ike no Mokusu" (Mokusatsu of the Pond) and "Tsuki no Yukue" (Where the Moon Goes), which are based on historical texts from the Middle Ages and Middle Ages, are all masterpieces written in elegant pseudo-classical Japanese. She left behind a vast body of work, including waka poetry, haiku and travel writing. Her teacher of Chinese classics, Jiangmura Hokkai, commented that her style of poetry was "gentle and gentle, without losing the original color of the bedroom," and included one of her poems from "Theme Paintings," "The willows flow along the green river, the spring breeze leans on the orchid boat, the houses are far away behind the mountain range, I imagine the long companionship of the deer playing," in "History of Japanese Poetry" (vol. 2). <Works> Izuno Tatsu (ed.), "Collection of Tales of Beautiful Arakida" <References> Mimura Takekiyo, "Arakida Beautiful," "A Tale of Beautiful Women: An Extravagant Explanation" (Japanese Bibliographical Series 23, "Collection of Mimura Takekiyo," vol. 7)

(Robert Campbell)

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

Japanese:

没年：文化3.1.12(1806.3.1)
生年：享保17.3.10(1732.4.4)
江戸中期の文学者。伊勢内宮地下権禰宜荒木田武遠の娘,13歳で叔父の外宮御師・慶徳武遇の養女となる。文雅の家に育ち和漢仏の素養を十分身につけた。22歳,慶徳家雅と結婚するころから連歌と詩文にしぼって才を育んだ。40歳代からは本格的な文筆生活に入った。『池の藻屑』『月のゆくへ』など中古や中世の史書に取材した歴史物語はいずれも優美な擬古文で綴られた名作。和歌,俳諧,紀行文などを含む膨大な作品群を残した。漢学の師,江村北海はその詩風を「婉順にして閨閤の本色を失はず」と評し,「題画」の1首「楊柳青辺澗水流春風倚棹木蘭舟人家隔在峰巒裏想像長伴麋鹿遊」を『日本詩史』(第2巻)に収めた。<著作>伊豆野タツ編『荒木田麗女物語集成』<参考文献>三村竹清「荒木田麗女」「麗女伝蛇足」(日本書誌学大系23『三村竹清集』7巻)

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