Sima Qian - Shiba Sen (English spelling) Si-ma Qian

Japanese: 司馬遷 - しばせん（英語表記）Si-ma Qian

[Raw] Chugen 5 (145 before)?
[Died] Shigen 1 (86 BC)?
A historian of the Western Han Dynasty in China. Born in Xia Yang (Hancheng County, Shaanxi Province). His given name was Zichang. There are many different theories about his birth and death. From the age of 20, he traveled to various regions under his father Sima Tan's orders, collecting old records. He later became famous as a Langzhong, and in the third year of Yuanfeng (108 B.C.), he succeeded his father as Grand Historian. He was also known as Grand Historian. In the second year of Tianhan (99 B.C.), he defended Li Ling, who had been captured by the Xiongnu, incurring the wrath of Emperor Wu, who imprisoned him, and the following year executed him. Two years later, he was released under a general amnesty and appointed as the Secretary of the Central Secretariat. He devoted himself to the project of revising history, which he had begun early on at his father's request, and wrote the immortal masterpiece, Records of the Grand Historian.

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Japanese:

[生]中元5(前145)?
[没]始元1(前86)?
中国，前漢の歴史家。夏陽 (陝西省韓城県) の人。字，子長。生没年については諸説の間にかなりの幅がある。 20歳から父司馬談の命を受けて諸地方を旅行し，古い記録などを集めた。のち郎中となって名をあげ，元封3 (前 108) 年，父の跡を継いで太史令となった。そのため太史公ともいう。天漢2 (前 99) 年，匈奴の捕虜となった李陵の弁護をして武帝の怒りに触れ下獄，翌年宮刑に処せられた。2年後大赦によって出獄，中書令となり，父の遺命で早くから着手していた修史の事業に没頭し，不朽の名著『史記』を著わした。

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