Toyama Unjo

Japanese: 遠山雲如 - とおやま・うんじょ

Year of death: May 16, 1863 (July 1, 1863)
Year of birth: Bunka 7 (1810)
A Chinese poet of the late Edo period. His real surname was Ogura, but he took his mother's surname, Toyama. His given name was originally Yufu, then Tan, his pen name was originally Shihatsu, then Unnyo, and his pen name was Yusai. He was the son of Ogura Daifu, a townsman in Edo. He loved poetry from his youth, and frequented the schools of such great poets as Okubo Shibutsu and Kikuchi Gozan, and was praised as a child prodigy. He later studied Confucianism under Nagano Toyozan, and became a treasurer of the Edo Shogunate, but soon quit and went bankrupt due to a dissolute lifestyle. He later participated in the Tamaike Ginsha, led by Yanagawa Seigan, and played an important role in it, while also moving to Nanso, Atsugi, Hachioji, and other areas to support himself by teaching poetry. In 1857 (Ansei 4), he followed his teacher Seigan to Kyoto, and after traveling around various places, he died in Kyoto. His poetry collections include "Unnyo Sanjinshu" and "Bokusui Shiji Zasyo". <References> Ai Maeda "Unnyo Sanjinden" ("Literature of the Bakumatsu and Meiji Restoration Periods")

(Ibi High School)

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Japanese:

没年：文久3.5.16(1863.7.1)
生年：文化7(1810)
江戸後期の漢詩人。本姓は小倉氏だが,母方の姓遠山氏を称した。名は初め有孚のち澹,字は初め子発のち雲如,号は裕斎。江戸の町人小倉大輔の子。少年時代より詩を好み,大窪詩仏や菊池五山など詩壇の大家のもとに出入りし,神童と評された。のちに長野豊山に儒学を学び,江戸幕府の蔵役人の職についたが,ほどなく辞し,放蕩生活のため破産した。その後は梁川星巌の玉池吟社に参加して重きをなす傍ら,南総,厚木,八王子などに居を転じ,詩を教えて生計を支えた。安政4(1857)年師の星巌のあとを追って上洛し,各地を遊歴したのち京都で没した。詩集に『雲如山人集』『墨水四時雑詠』などがある。<参考文献>前田愛「雲如山人伝」(『幕末・維新期の文学』)

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