Tanaka Michimaro

Japanese: 田中道麿 - たなか・みちまろ

Year of death: Tenmei 4.10.4 (1784.11.16)
Year of birth: 1724
A Japanese classics scholar of the mid-Edo period. Commonly known as Mohichi, and later Shobei. He went by the pen name of Haruki-o. He was born into a farming family in Haruki, Tagi-gun, Mino (Yoro-cho, Gifu Prefecture). He became the apprentice of Osugi Nakayabu in Hikone, Omi, and devoted himself to the study of Japanese classics. He later moved to Nagoya and studied under Motoori Norinaga, becoming one of Norinaga's most loyal disciples. Norinaga also had deep trust in Michimaro's academic talent. His main research subject was the Manyoshu, and his dialogue with Norinaga reveals the level of Manyoshu research at the time. A copy of his family anthology, Tanaka Michimaro Zenshu, has been handed down to us. <References> Iwata Takashi, "Draft Chronology of Tanaka Michimaro" (Nagoya Institute of Technology Bulletin, No. 29), and Iwata Takashi, "A Study of the Chronology of Haruki-o" (Nagoya Institute of Technology Bulletin, No. 30)

(Keichi Kubota)

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Japanese:

没年：天明4.10.4(1784.11.16)
生年：享保9(1724)
江戸中期の国学者。通称茂七,のち庄兵衛。榛木翁と号した。美濃多芸郡榛木(岐阜県養老町)の農家に生まれる。近江彦根で大菅中養父に入門,国学の研究に励む。のち名古屋に移り住み,本居宣長に師事,宣長の最も忠実な門人のひとりとして重きをなす。宣長もまた道麿の学才を深く信頼した。研究対象は主として万葉集で,宣長との問答は万葉集研究の当時の水準を物語る。家集『田中道全集』が写本で伝存する。<参考文献>岩田隆「田中道麿年譜稿」(『名古屋工業大学学報』29号),同「榛木翁年譜考証」(『名古屋工業大学学報』30号)

(久保田啓一)

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