Masaaki Ishihara

Japanese: 石原正明 - いしはら・まさあきら

Year of death: 7th January 1821 (9th February 1821)
Year of birth: 1760
A scholar of Japanese classics in the late Edo period, and a member of the court nobility. His first name was Shocho. He was commonly known as Kizaemon or Bunnai. He was called Houdou. There are differing theories about his birth year. He was born into a farming family in Kamimori Village, Kaito County, Owari Province (Tsushima City), but he did not like the family business and devoted himself to studying the "Ryo Gikai" together with Kawamura Hidene, Kamimura Masarin, Inaba Michikuni and others. He was well versed in the study of court nobility, and wrote "Kan'i Tsukō" and "Seisha Tsukō", among others. In 1792, he became a pupil of Motoori Norinaga, and often criticised his teacher's theories, making him stand out among his pupils in Owari. In particular, his commentary on the Shin Kokinshu, Owari Nokaho, put forward a theory opposing Norinaga's Minono Nokaho, which is a perfect example of Masaaki's talent and can be said to have put into practice Norinaga's teaching (words from Tamakatsuma) that "just because it is the teacher's theory does not mean that we should necessarily adhere to it." At the end of the Kansei era, he moved to Edo and followed Hanawa Hokiichi, gaining his trust. As head of the Onkodo school, he worked hard to compile and edit Gunsho Ruiju and Ruiju Kokushi. His works include Nennen Zuihitsu and Edo Shokunin Utaawase. <References> Mori Senzo, "Ishihara Masaaki" (Mori Senzo Collected Works, Volume 7)

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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没年：文政4.1.7(1821.2.9)
生年：宝暦10(1760)
江戸後期の国学者,有職故実家。初名は将聴。通称は喜左衛門,文内。蓬堂と号した。生年に異説あり。尾張国海東郡神守村(津島市)の農家に生まれたが,家業を好まず,河村秀根,神村正鄰,稲葉通邦らと共に『令義解』の研究に励んだ。有職の学に精通し,『冠位通考』『制度通考』などを著す。寛政4(1792)年本居宣長に入門したが,しばしば師の説を批判して尾張の門下で異彩を放った。特に『新古今集』の注釈書『尾張廼家苞』は宣長の『美濃廼家苞』に反対の説を立てたもので,正明の面目躍如たるものがあり,まさに「師の説なりとてかならずなづみ守るべきにもあらず」という宣長の教え(『玉勝間』の言葉)を実践しているといえよう。寛政末年に江戸に出て塙保己一に従い,その信頼を得,温故堂学頭として『群書類従』『類聚国史』の編纂校訂に尽力した。『年々随筆』『江戸職人歌合』などの著がある。<参考文献>森銑三「石原正明」(『森銑三著作集』7巻)

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