Akira Suzuki

A scholar of Japanese classics and Confucianism in the late Edo period. He used both the names Ryou and Rou. His pen name was Shusei, his common name was Jōsuke (Suke), and his pen name was Riyaya. He was born on March 3, 1761, in Nishibiwajima, Owari Province (Kiyosu City, Aichi Prefecture), and later inherited the Suzuki family name from his grandfather. At the age of 12, he became a disciple of Ichikawa Kakumei, a scholar of Sorai studies. From around the age of 20, he also became interested in Japanese classics, and in 1792 (Kansei 4), at the age of 29, he became a disciple of Motoori Norinaga. In his later years, he became a professor at Meirindō, an Owari domain school, and died on June 6, 1835, at the age of 74. His works on Japanese classics include "A Treatise on the Four Types of Language," which classifies Japanese into four types: "words of body, words of form, words of action, and teni," "Katsugo Danjakufu" (completed around 1803), which organizes the conjugation of conjugated words through disconnected conjugation, and "Koe no Onjou" (Thoughts on the Phonetics of Elegant Language) (1816), which explains language that represents things through sounds. His works on Chinese classics include "Daigaku Sankai" (1803), "A Sankai to the Analects of Confucius" and "Kiega" (1816), as well as "Hiroya Gakukun" (1828), which discusses academic studies. In particular, "Katsugo Dankakufu" was handed down in manuscript form, and ultimately unified the results of Fujitani Nariakira and Motoori Norinaga's research into conjugated language, and influenced the creation of Motoori Haruniwa's "Kotoba no Yachimata."

[Tosaku Furuta October 19, 2018]

"Tokieda Makoto, 'Suzuki Ryou's Position in the History of Japanese Linguistics'" (published in 'Japanese Language and Literature', January 1927, Shibundo)" ▽ "'Suzuki Ryou' by Okada Minoru and Ichihashi Takashi (1967, Suzuki Ryou Commemoration Society)" ▽ "'Bunmo', compiled and published by the Suzuki Ryou Society, various annual issues (1976-2007)"

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江戸後期の国学者、儒学者。名は朖・朗ともに用いる。字(あざな)は叔清、通称は常介（助）、号は離屋。宝暦(ほうれき)14年3月3日尾張(おわり)国西枇杷島(にしびわじま)（愛知県清須(きよす)市）に生まれ、のち祖父鈴木氏を相続する。12歳で徂徠(そらい)学の市川鶴鳴(いちかわかくめい)の門に入る。20歳ごろから国学にも関心をもち、1792年（寛政4）29歳のとき本居宣長(もとおりのりなが)の門に入る。晩年、尾張藩校明倫堂教授並となり、天保(てんぽう)8年6月6日、74歳で没。国学上の著書に、日本語を「体ノ詞(ことば)・形状(ありかた)ノ詞・作用(しわざ)ノ詞・テニヲハ」の4種に分類して説いた『言語四種(げんぎょししゅ)論』、切れ続きによる活用語の活用の仕方を整理した『活語断続譜』（1803ころ成立）、音声で物事を象(かたど)り写した言語について説いた『雅語音声(おんじょう)考』（1816）などがあり、漢学上の著書に『大学参解』（1803成立）『論語参解』『希雅』（1816）などのほか、学問について述べた『離屋学訓』（1828）などがある。とくに『活語断続譜』は写本で伝わったが、結果的に富士谷成章(ふじたになりあきら)、本居宣長の活用語研究の成果を統一し、本居春庭(はるにわ)の『詞(ことば)の八衢(やちまた)』の成立に影響を与えた。

［古田東朔　2018年10月19日］

『時枝誠記「鈴木朖の国語学史上に於ける位置」（『国語と国文学』1927.1所収・至文堂）』▽『岡田稔・市橋鐸著『鈴木朖』（1967・鈴木朖顕彰会）』▽『鈴木朖学会編・刊『文莫』各年刊（1976～2007）』

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