Masayo Komiyama - Shosei Komiyama

Japanese: 小宮山昌世 - こみやま・しょうせい

Year of death: May 11, 1773 (An'ei 2, leap year 3, 20)
Year of birth: Unknown. A Confucian scholar and shogunate official in the mid-Edo period. His pen name was Kiminobu, and he was commonly known as Mokunoshin and Kentei. He lived in Koishikawa, Edo. He was a disciple of Dazai Shundai. He was active as an expert in agricultural policy and economics, writing a book on land surveys called "Shojoroku" at the command of Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, and was also praised for reclamation of Sakura Kogane (Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture). He held the position of magistrate in 1721 (Kyoho 6), and was highly regarded as a good official. His representative works include "Denenruisetsu", "Chihou Mondosho", "Kyogen Monkenshi", and "Toto Jiraku". <References> Oishi Shinzaburo, "Kyoho Reform Economic Policy", Revised edition

(Yasuhiro Kojima)

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

Japanese:

没年：安永2.閏3.20(1773.5.11)
生年：生年不詳
江戸中期の儒者,幕臣。字は君延,通称杢之進,謙亭と号した。江戸小石川に住む。太宰春台の門人。将軍徳川吉宗の命を受け,検地に関する書物『正生録』を書き,また佐倉小金(千葉県佐倉市)の開墾によって賞せられるなど,農政や経済の分野の専門家として活躍した。享保6(1721)年から代官職に就き,良吏として評判も高かった。代表的な著作に『田園類説』『地方問答書』『享元聞見志』『東都事略』などがある。<参考文献>大石慎三郎『享保改革の経済政策』増補版

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