Yan Shu (English spelling)

Japanese: 晏殊 - あんしゅ（英語表記）Yan Shu

[Raw] Junka 2 (991)
[Died] Zhihe 2 (1055). Politician and poet of the Northern Song Dynasty in Chang'an, China. Born in Linchuan, Fuzhou (Jiangxi Province). Court name: Tongshu. Together with his son Yan Jidao, he is known as the "Second Yan." He composed at the age of 7, and took the first Song Dynasty Jinshi examination for young boys at the age of 14. The following year, he took the court examination and was awarded the Tongshinshi title by the then Emperor Zhenzong, and appointed as a regular scribe in the Ministry of Secretariat. He was trusted by Zhenzong and Renzong, and promoted to Privy Councilor and Prime Minister. However, he was demoted after being slandered, and served as governor of Yingzhou, Chenzhou, and Xuzhou, but returned to Chang'an due to illness and died in the first month of the following year. Renzong is said to have been so saddened by his death that he refrained from politics for two days. His posthumous name was Yuan Xian. He excelled in poetry and prose, and as a poet he inherited the elegant style of poetry from the Tang and Five Dynasties, making him one of the leading writers of the time. His works are said to have numbered 240 volumes, but only 136 poems from the anthology "Pure Words" and one volume of his posthumous writings remain. Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, and Kong Daofu were his disciples.

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Japanese:

[生]淳化2(991)
[没]至和2(1055).長安
中国，北宋の政治家，詞人。撫州臨川 (江西省) の人。字，同叔。息子の晏幾道とともに「二晏」といわれる。7歳で文をつくり，14歳で宋代最初の童子のための進士の試験を受け，翌年廷試を受けて時の皇帝真宗から同進士出身を賜わって秘書省正字に任じられた。真宗，仁宗の信任を受け，枢密使，宰相にまで昇進。しかし中傷にあって降職され，潁州，陳州，許州などの知事をつとめたが病のため長安に帰り，翌年正月没した。仁宗はその死をいたんで2日間政治をみるのをやめたという。諡は元献。詞文にすぐれ，特に詞人としては唐，五代の艶麗な詞風を継承して，当時の代表的作家の一人。作品は 240巻あったといわれるが，詞集『珠玉詞』の 136首と，遺文集1巻のみ現存。范仲淹，欧陽修，孔道輔らは門下生。

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