Senkaku - Senkaku

Japanese: 仙覚 - せんがく

Year of death: After Bun'ei 9? (1272)
Year of birth: Kennin 3 (1203)
A monk, Man'yo scholar, and poet of the Kamakura period. His family lineage is unknown, but he was born in Hitachi. He was of the Tendai sect. He aspired to study the Man'yoshu from the age of 13, and in 1246, by order of the Shogun Fujiwara no Yoritsune, he followed in the footsteps of Minamoto no Chikayuki and revised the Man'yoshu using several works, including Chikayuki's, and added the so-called Senkaku Shinten to the mutenka. In 1253, he presented the Shintenka and the Senkaku Ritsushi Soranjo to the retired Emperor Gosaga. He continued to search through various works and continue to revise them, and in addition to the Kangen version, he presented the Bun'ei 2 and Bun'ei 3 versions to Prince Munetaka. In 1269, he completed the 10-volume Annotated Man'yoshu in Musashi Province. Senkaku's revisions and annotations were a groundbreaking achievement in the history of Man'yoshu research, and he was the greatest Man'yo scholar until Keichu appeared in the Edo period. As a poet, he had four poems included in the "Shoku Kokinshu" and later collections, and was active in the Kamakura poetry world, with his poems being included in the "Shin Wakashu" and "Tosen Waka Rokujo."

(Kumiko Tabuchi)

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

Japanese:

没年：文永9以後?(1272)
生年：建仁3(1203)
鎌倉時代の僧,万葉学者,歌人。家系等不明であるが生国は常陸。天台宗。13歳より『万葉集』研究を志し,寛元4(1246)年将軍藤原頼経の命により,源親行のあとを受けて親行本など数本により『万葉集』を校訂し,さらに無点歌にいわゆる仙覚新点を加える。建長5(1253)年新点歌と『仙覚律師奏覧状』とが後嵯峨上皇に献上された。その後も諸本を博捜して校訂が続けられ,寛元本のほか,宗尊親王に献上された文永2年本や文永3年本などがある。文永6(1269)年武蔵国で『万葉集註釈』10巻を完成。仙覚の校訂・注釈は『万葉集』研究史上画期的な業績であり,江戸時代に契沖が現れるまでの最大の万葉学者であった。歌人としても『続古今集』以下に4首入集するほか,鎌倉歌壇で活躍,『新和歌集』『東撰和歌六帖』に入集。

(田渕句美子)

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