Kondo Yoshiki

Japanese: 近藤芳樹 - こんどう・よしき

Year of death: February 29, 1880
Year of birth: 25th May 1801 (5th July 1801)
A scholar of Japanese classics in the late Edo and Meiji periods. His first name was Yutaka. He was commonly known as Gengo and later Shinichiro. His pen names included Yorii and Fugetsu Fumio. He was the eldest son of Tanaka Genkichi from Iwabuchi Village, Suo Province (Hofu City). He traveled to Kamigata early on to study Japanese classics and the ritsuryo system under Murata Harumon, Motoori Ohira, and Yamada Ibumi. In 1840, he succeeded the Kondo family, a samurai of the Choshu (Hagi) domain, as the domain's head of Japanese studies, and settled in Hagi. He was highly valued by the domain's lord, Mori Yoshichika, and in 1864 he became an instructor at the domain school, Meirinkan. After the Meiji Restoration, he worked for the Yamaguchi Prefectural Office for a while, but in 1875 he joined the Imperial Household Ministry and was appointed as a literary official. He accompanied Emperor Meiji on his imperial visits to the eastern provinces and the northern region, and wrote the accompanying diaries "Rikuji no Ki" and "Juppu no Sugakomo." He was also an outstanding poet, leaving behind works such as "Kofu Santai Ko" and "Yorii Kadan." <References> Mori Keizo, "On Kondo Yoshiki" (Kokugakuin Magazine, Vol. 39, Nos. 3 and 4)

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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Japanese:

没年：明治13.2.29(1880)
生年：享和1.5.25(1801.7.5)
幕末明治期の国学者。初名は裕。通称,源吾,のち晋一郎。号は寄居,風月史生など。周防国岩淵村(防府市)田中源吉の長男。早くから上方に遊学して村田春門,本居大平,山田以文に国学,律令を学んだ。天保11(1940)年長州(萩)藩士近藤家を継いで藩の和学方となり,萩に居を構える。藩主毛利敬親に重用され,元治1(1864)年には藩校明倫館の教官となった。維新後しばらく山口県庁に勤めたが,明治8(1875)年宮内省に出仕して文学御用掛に任じられた。明治天皇の東国行幸,北陸行幸に供奉して『陸路の記』『十符の菅薦』の供奉日記を著す。歌学者としてもすぐれており,『古風三体考』『寄居歌談』など遺した。<参考文献>森敬三「近藤芳樹に就いて」(『国学院雑誌』39巻3,4号)

(白石良夫)

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