Suzuki Shigetane

A scholar of Japanese classics in the late Edo period. His childhood name was Yuzaburo, and he was commonly known as Katsuzaemon. His pen name was Kashinoya, and later he was called Itsukashigamoto. He was born on May 5, 1812. He was from Nii Village, Tsuna County, Awaji Province (Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture). His family had been village heads for generations, and he was the second son of his father Shigetake and mother Urako Okamoto. He lived in Konoike, Osaka, and at the Hashimoto family home in Kobe, learning various arts, and was inspired by his father to study Japanese classics. At the age of 21, he sent a list of students to Atsutane Hirata, and at the age of 23, he became a disciple of Takamasa Okuni. At the age of 32, he went to Akita, but after Atsutane's death, he lived in Osaka, later in Muramatsu-cho, Nihonbashi, Edo, and further in Koume, Mukojima. He traveled around the country, spreading a style of learning centered on Shinto and interacting with the Sonno-joi faction, but was assassinated by an assassin at his home in Koume on August 15, 1863. He was 52 years old. His grave is at Wada Choenji Temple, Suginami Ward, Tokyo.

He left the Hirata school and wrote "Lectures on Engishiki Norito" and "Lectures on Nakatomi no Yogoto", as well as the unfinished large-scale work "Nihon Shoki-den", which lacks objectivity in some areas but is detailed in its annotations. He also edited waka poems, and wrote many diaries and travelogues, including the short essay "Yotsugigusa".

[Tsutomu Hayashi]

"The Complete Works of Suzuki Shigetane, edited by Kishita Yoshitaka, 13 volumes (1937-44, Association for the Promotion of the Academic and Moral Proficiency of Suzuki Shigetane)" ▽ "Takashina Seisho, National Studies Series 21, Collected Works of Suzuki Shigetane (1944, Chiheisha)" ▽ "Yokeiso, annotated by Haga Noboru and Matsumoto Sannosuke (included in Japanese Thought Series 51, 1971, Iwanami Shoten)" ▽ "The True Character of Suzuki Shigetane, Posthumous Fifth Rank, by Kishita Yoshitaka (1931, Association for the Promotion of Ifu)" ▽ "Biography of Suzuki Shigetane, with biographies of his disciples, by Hoshikawa Kiyotami (1943, Kotodama Shobo)" ▽ "Study of Suzuki Shigetane, by Tani Shogo (1968, Shinto History Society)"

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江戸末期の国学者。幼名雄三郎、通称勝左衛門。号橿屋(かしのや)、のち厳橿本(いつかしがもと)など。文化(ぶんか)9年5月5日生まれ。淡路国津名(つな)郡仁井(にい)村（兵庫県淡路(あわじ)市）の出。生家は代々、里長で、父重威(しげたけ)、母岡本麗子(うらこ)の二男。大坂鴻池(こうのいけ)、神戸橋本家に寄寓(きぐう)し諸芸を習い、父の影響で国学に志し、21歳平田篤胤(あつたね)に入門名簿を送り、23歳大国隆正(おおくにたかまさ)門に入り、32歳秋田に赴いたが、篤胤没後で、大坂のち江戸日本橋村松町、さらに向島小梅(むこうじまこうめ)に住み、諸国を旅して神道(しんとう)を中心とする学風を広め尊攘(そんじょう)派と交流したが、文久(ぶんきゅう)3年8月15日小梅の自宅で刺客に暗殺された。52歳。墓所は東京都杉並区和田長延寺。

　平田派から別れ、『延喜式祝詞(えんぎしきのりと)講義』『中臣寿詞(なかとみのよごと)講義』のほか、未完の大著『日本書紀伝』は客観性に欠く点もあるが、注釈詳細である。和歌の編集もあり、小論『世継草(よつぎぐさ)』はじめ日記、紀行文も多い。

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『樹下快淳編『鈴木重胤全集』全13巻（1937～44・鈴木重胤先生学徳顕揚会）』▽『高階成章校『国学大系21　鈴木重胤集』（1944・地平社）』▽『芳賀登・松本三之介注『世継草』（『日本思想大系51』所収・1971・岩波書店）』▽『樹下快淳著『贈正五位鈴木重胤真人物』（1931・遺風顕彰会）』▽『星川清民著『鈴木重胤伝附門人伝』（1943・言霊書房）』▽『谷省吾著『鈴木重胤の研究』（1968・神道史学会）』

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