Song Si-yeol

A scholar and politician from the Yi Dynasty of Korea. His pen name was Yeongbo, his pen name was Yuan, and his posthumous name was Munjeong. At the time, repeated factional strife pitted Westerners and Southerners against each other, with the Southerners defeated and the Westerners splitting into Soron and Noron. He played an active role as the leader of the Noron faction, and during the reign of the 17th king, Hyojong, he advocated and promoted a plan to invade the North against Qing. After the reign of Hyeonjong, who succeeded Hyojong, he repeatedly engaged in fierce factional strife with the Southerners and Soron, and was executed by the next king, Sukjong. A great Confucian scholar who devoted his life to Neo-Confucianism, he inherited the academic tradition of Yulgok Yi I, and became the mainstream of the Kiho school. He was also knowledgeable about etiquette regarding mourning, and trained many scholars. His books include "An Examination of the Similarities and Differences of Zhu Xi's Discourses," "The Complete Works of Song Zi," and "The Complete Works of Zhu Xi: Questions and Doubts."

[Yamauchi Koichi October 19, 2016]

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朝鮮、李朝(りちょう)の学者、政治家。字(あざな)は英甫(えいほ)、号は尤庵(ゆうあん)、諡号(しごう)は文正。当時は党争の繰り返しによって西人と南人とが争い、南人が敗れ、西人が少論と老論に分かれたが、その老論の領袖(りょうしゅう)として活躍し、第17代孝宗時代には清(しん)に対する北伐計画を主張、推進。孝宗の次の顕宗時代以後、南人や少論と激しい党争を繰り返し、次の粛宗により死を賜った。一生を朱子学に没頭した巨儒で、栗谷李珥(りっこくりじ)の学統を継ぎ畿湖(きこ)学派の主流をなし、服喪に関する礼論にも明るく多くの学者を養成した。著書に『朱子言論同異攷(どういこう)』『宋子(そうし)大全』『朱子大全箚疑(さつぎ)』などがある。

［山内弘一　2016年10月19日］

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