Ikebe Sanzan - Ikebe Sanzan

Japanese: 池辺三山 - いけべ・さんざん

Year of death: February 28, 1912 (Meiji 45)
Year of birth: 12/5/1864 (12/3/1864)
A journalist from the Meiji period. His real name was Kichitaro, and he had other pen names such as Tekkonron. He was the eldest son of Kumamoto feudal samurai father Kichijuro and mother Seiki. During the Seinan War (1877), Kichijuro led the Kumamoto troops in Saigo Takamori's army and was executed. This had a great influence on Miyama in the future. In 1881 (Meiji 14), he moved to Tokyo and studied at Nakamura Keiu's (Masayoshi) private school Dojinsha and Keio Gijuku. In 1887, he entered the world of opinion by submitting an editorial to the Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun, and in 1888, he was asked by Tokai Sanshi to become editor-in-chief of the nationalist magazine Keisei Hyoron. However, in 1890, he gave up this position due to poor business performance and began submitting editorials to Nippon. In 1902, he traveled to France as an advisor to the heir of the former feudal lord, Hosokawa Morinari, and from 1902 he contributed "Paris News" to Nippon under the pen name Tekkonron, which earned him fame. In 1904, he became editor-in-chief of the Osaka Asahi Shimbun, and in 1905, he was editor-in-chief of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. In 1906, he became a full-time editor of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. He wrote numerous editorials on foreign and domestic issues, including a hard-line stance against Russia that called for war. He attempted to modernize the paper, and instilled his belief that "newspaper articles should be clear and eloquent" within the company. After the Russo-Japanese War, he tried to revamp the novel section, and helped Futabatei Shimei and Natsume Soseki join the company and serialize their novels. As a historical commentator, he wrote "On Okubo Toshimichi," "On Ito Hirobumi," and "On Iwakura Tomomi" for Chuokoron, which were published posthumously as "The Three Great Politicians of the Meiji Restoration." <References> Ichiro Ikebe and Kenichi Tominaga, "Sanzan Ikebe: The Birth of a Journalist"

(Kazuo Komiya)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治45.2.28(1912)
生年：元治1.2.5(1864.3.12)
明治時代のジャーナリスト。本名は吉太郎。鉄崑崙などの別号があった。熊本藩士の父吉十郎,母世喜の長男。吉十郎は西南戦争(1877)の際,熊本隊を率いて西郷隆盛軍に参加し,処刑された。このことは,のちの三山に大きな影響を与えた。明治14(1881)年上京し,中村敬宇(正直)の私塾同人社や慶応義塾に学ぶ。20年『山梨日日新聞』に論説を投稿して言論界入りし,21年には東海散士に依頼され,ナショナリズムを主張する雑誌『経世評論』の編集長となる。しかし,23年には経営不振のためこれを投げ出し,『日本』に論説を投稿し始める。25年旧藩主の世子細川護成の輔導役として渡仏し,27年より鉄崑崙の名で「巴里通信」を『日本』に寄稿し,名声を得た。29年『大阪朝日新聞』主筆,30年『東京朝日新聞』主筆を兼任。31年から『東京朝日新聞』専任となった。開戦も辞せずという対露強硬論など外交や内政問題について数多くの社説を書いた。紙面の近代化を図り,「新聞記事は明快にして達意」という持論を社内に浸透させた。日露戦後は小説面の刷新を図り,二葉亭四迷,夏目漱石の入社,小説連載を実現させた。史論家として「大久保利通論」や「伊藤博文論」「岩倉具視論」を『中央公論』に書き,死後『明治維新三大政治家』として出版された。<参考文献>池辺一郎・富永健一『池辺三山ジャーナリストの誕生』

(小宮一夫)

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