Toshihira Iida

Japanese: 飯田年平 - いいだ・としひら

Year of death: June 26, 1886 (Meiji 19)
Year of birth: 1820
A poet from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. His first name was Ashiho, he was commonly known as Shichiro, and his pen name was Sekizono. He was the son of Iida Hideo, a shrine official at Kachiya Shrine in Keta County, Inaba Province (Tottori Prefecture). As Hideo was a pupil of Motoori Ohira, Toshihira also studied under Ohira, and also under Kano Shohei. His love of learning was recognised by Ikeda Yoshinori, the lord of Tottori Domain, and he was promoted to professor at the National Learning Bureau. After the Meiji Restoration, he served as a historian in the new government, successively holding positions such as Shinto Grand Historian, Shinto Grand Recorder, and Shikibu Grand Chamberlain, before retiring as an official official at the Shikibu-ryo Bureau. He was ranked Jurokui (Junior Sixth Rank) at the time of his death. He has many anecdotes about drinking and poverty, and died without starting a family. He wrote many works related to Shinto. His other works include the Tanka of the Manyoshu.

(Keichi Kubota)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：明治19.6.26(1886)
生年：文政3(1820)
江戸時代末から明治にかけての歌人。初名足穂,通称七郎,号石園。因幡国気多郡(鳥取県)の加知弥神社祠官飯田秀雄の子。秀雄が本居大平の門人であったため,年平も大平に従学,さらに加納諸平にも学んだ。その好学を鳥取藩主池田慶徳に認められ国学局教授に抜擢される。維新後は新政府に史官として仕え,神祇大史・神祇大録・式部大属などを歴任,式部寮御用掛を最後に退官。死と同時に従六位となる。飲酒と貧窮の逸話に富み,家庭を営むことなく没す。神道関係の著述が多い。他に『万葉集短歌』など。

(久保田啓一)

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