Xie An - Xian

A Chinese politician in the mid-Eastern Jin Dynasty. His courtesy name was Anshi. He was from a noble family in Yangxia, Chen County (Henan Province). He first served at the age of 40 in a manor in Kuaiji (Zhejiang Province) with Wang Xizhi and others, and served as Minister of the Secretariat, Situ, and Taibo. He was generous and insightful, and worked to establish order in the country with a long-term perspective. He used strategies to prevent the usurpation of the warlord Huan Wen, and used his nephew Xie Xuan to repel the large army of Former Qin's Fu Jian in the Battle of Feishui, thus establishing the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was also a cultural leader who excelled in music, cursive writing, and refined conversation, and his high-minded nature earned him the respect of an "elegant prime minister," and he was seen as a model minister in later generations.

[Jiro Yasuda]

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中国、東晋(とうしん)中期の政治家。字(あざな)は安石。陳郡陽夏（河南省）の名族出身。初め会稽(かいけい)（浙江(せっこう)省）の荘園(しょうえん)で王羲之(おうぎし)らと悠々自適して40歳で出仕、尚書僕射(しょうしょぼくや)、司徒(しと)、太保(たいほ)を歴任した。度量が広く洞察力に富み、長期的展望のもとに国家秩序の樹立に努め、計略で軍閥桓温(かんおん)の簒奪(さんだつ)を阻むとともに甥(おい)の謝玄を用いて前秦(ぜんしん)符堅(ふけん)の大軍を淝水(ひすい)の戦いで撃退するなど、東晋王朝をもり立てた。また音楽、行書、清談に優れた文化界の領袖(りょうしゅう)で、高踏的気風と相まって「風流宰相」と慕われ、後世においても大臣の模範とされた。

［安田二郎］

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