Shu Shun-sui

A Confucian scholar who came from Ming China in the early Edo period. His name was Shuyu, his pen name was Luoyang (it is incorrect to say Soyo), and his pen name Shun-sui was taken from the name of a river in his hometown. He was born to a scholar-official family in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, China, and served the Ming Dynasty. In an effort to save his country from the threat of destruction, he traveled abroad and made several visits to Nagasaki, where he was exiled for the seventh time in 1659 (Manji 2). The following year, in 1660, he met the Confucian scholar Ando Seian (Morinari) of the Yanagawa Domain, and was treated well by him. A few years later, Tokugawa Mitsukuni, lord of the Mito domain, sent his historian Oyake Seijun (1638-1674) to Nagasaki to invite Shunsui. At first, he did not accept, but with the encouragement of his disciple Shoan, he accepted the invitation and arrived at the Mito domain's Edo residence in July 1665 (Kanbun 5), at the age of 66. After that, he came to Mito twice more, but was given a residence in the Mito domain's middle residence in Komagome, Edo (the site of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Tokyo), and was treated as Mitsukuni's guest teacher until his death on April 17, 2nd year of Tenna, at the age of 83. Asaka Tanpo (whose real name was Satoru), famous for compiling the Dai Nihonshi, was his senior disciple. His grave was built in Confucian style at the Mito family's Zuiryuzan Cemetery (in Hitachiota City) by special order of Mitsukuni. It is known that Shunsui played an important role in the study of the Mito domain. Shunsui's study was somewhere between Neo-Confucianism and Yangmingism, and could be described as practical learning. His posthumous writings are included in the "Shu Shunsui Monshu" (28 volumes), compiled by order of Mitsukuni.

[Yoshihiko Seya February 17, 2016]

“Shunsui” (edited by the Shunsui Memorial Association) (1912, Shunsui Memorial Association Office) ▽ “Complete Works of Shunsui” (edited by Kimiyama Inaba) (1912, Bunkaido Shoten) ▽ “Peach Flower Fan, Shunsui” by Takeo Oda (1971, Shinchosha) ” “Bunkyo Sensei Shu Shunsui” by Hideaki Kinoshita (1989, Mito Historical Society) ▽ “New edition of Shunsui, written by Michihiro Ishihara (1989, Yoshikawa Kobunkan)”

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

江戸初期に明(みん)から渡来した儒学者。名は之瑜(しゆ)、字(あざな)は魯璵(ろよ)（楚璵(そよ)は誤り）、号の舜水は郷里の川の名からとった。中国浙江(せっこう)省餘姚(よよう)の士大夫の家に生まれ、明国に仕え、祖国滅亡の危機を救わんと、海外に渡って奔走、長崎にも数度きたり、七度目の1659年（万治2）長崎に流寓(るぐう)した。翌1660年柳川(やながわ)藩の儒者安東省庵(あんどうせいあん)（守約(もりなり)）と会い、彼の知遇を受ける。水戸藩主徳川光圀(とくがわみつくに)が史臣小宅生順(おやけせいじゅん)（1638―1674）を長崎に遣わして、舜水を招こうとしたのはその数年後。初め応じなかったが、門人省庵の勧めもあり、招きに応じて水戸藩の江戸藩邸に至ったのは1665年（寛文5）7月、66歳のときである。以後水戸にも二度きているが、住居は江戸駒込(こまごめ)の水戸藩中屋敷（東京大学農学部敷地）に与えられ、天和(てんな)2年4月17日83歳で没するまで、光圀の賓師(ひんし)として待遇された。『大日本史』の編纂(へんさん)で有名な安積澹泊(あさかたんぱく)（名は覚）はその高弟。墓は光圀の特命によって水戸家の瑞竜山(ずいりゅうざん)墓地（常陸(ひたち)太田市）に儒式をもって建てられた。舜水が水戸藩の学問に重要な役割を果たしたことが知られる。舜水の学問は朱子学と陽明学の中間、実学とでもいうべきものである。その遺稿は光圀の命によって編纂された『朱舜水文集』（28巻）などに収められている。

［瀬谷義彦　2016年2月17日］

『朱舜水記念会編『朱舜水』（1912・朱舜水記念会事務所）』▽『稲葉君山編『朱舜水全集』（1912・文会堂書店）』▽『小田岳夫著『桃花扇・朱舜水』（1971・新潮社）』▽『木下英明著『文恭先生朱舜水』（1989・水戸史学会）』▽『石原道博著『朱舜水』新装版（1989・吉川弘文館）』

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