Nakajima Soin

Japanese: 中島棕隠 - なかじま・そういん

Year of death: 28th June 1855 (10th August 1855)
Year of birth: 1779
A Chinese poet and Confucian scholar of the late Edo period. His given name was Ki, his pen names were Keikan and Shisei, he was commonly known as Bunkichi, his pen names were Henken and Henkaku, his other names were Gamochi Koji, Inga Koji, and Anana Dojin (Rhapsody), and he lived in Suiryu Unzairo and Doda Yokaro. He was born in Kyoto into a family of Confucian scholars for generations. His father was Tokukata and his mother was Ko. He grew up in the cultural sphere of Myohoin Shinno Masahito, and was taught Japanese studies by Ban Kokei and Confucianism by Murase Kakutei. He was praised as "Bunkichi is elegant," and at the age of 19 he composed the lyrics of "Oto Takeeda" about the elegance of the Gion area, so he could not be left out in the cold, but for some reason he moved to Edo at the end of the Kansei era, and it was not until Bunka 11 (1814) that he returned to Kyoto. He established his reputation as a poet when he published Oto Shiji Zatsuyō (Oto Shiji Zatsuyō) in 1826, which he had previously expanded and revised. While continuing to associate with Rai Sanyo, Shinozaki Kotake, Yanagawa Seigan, and Umetsuji Shunsho, he continued to display the fresh poetry that had once been praised by the monk Rokunyo in the Zekkakukenshu (Volumes 1-4), and vividly depicted the customs of Kyoto in the Miyako Hanjōki (Chronicle of a Prosperous Capital). He also published rhapsody collections such as Taiping Shinkyoku (Taiping Shinkyoku), Taiping Nikyoku (Taiping Nikyoku), and Taiping Sankyoku (Taiping Sankyoku). While keeping an eye on the turbulent political situation at the end of the Edo period, he spent his later years inviting guests and cooking for them, painting and calligraphy, cultivating the garden of his own home while lecturing on Buddhist scriptures to his disciples. <References> Mori Senzo, "Nakajima Zon'in, the Good Confucian Scholar" (Mori Senzo Works Collection, Volume 2), Nakajima Zon'in Collection (Kamigata Art and Literature Collection, Volume 6)

(Miyazaki Shuta)

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Japanese:

没年：安政2.6.28(1855.8.10)
生年：安永8(1779)
江戸後期の漢詩人,儒者。名は規,字は景寛,士成,通称文吉,号は棕軒,棕隠,別号画餅居士,因果居士,安穴道人(狂詩),居所を水流雲在楼,銅駝余霞楼などと称した。京都で代々儒者の家に生まれる。父は徳方,母は甲。妙法院真仁法親王の文化圏に育ち,伴蒿蹊に国学を,村瀬栲亭に儒学を授かる。「粋は文吉」ともて囃され,19歳で祇園周辺の風流を「鴨東竹枝」詞に作るなど隅におけなかったが,なぜか寛政末から江戸に下向,帰洛したのは文化11(1814)年であった。かねて増補加筆していた『鴨東四時雑咏』を上梓(1826)して彼の詩名は決定的となる。頼山陽,篠崎小竹,梁川星巌,梅辻春樵らとの交友を続けながら,かつて六如上人に称賛された清新詩を次々と『棕隠軒集』(初～4集)に披瀝し,『都繁昌記』に京風俗を活写した。傍ら『太平新曲』『太平二曲』『太平三曲』などの狂詩集も出版。幕末の不穏な政情を睨みつつ,客を招いて手ずから料理を振る舞い,書画に健筆を揮い,自邸の庭を耕しながら弟子に経書を講ずる晩年であった。<参考文献>森銑三「好事儒者中島棕隠」(『森銑三著作集』2巻),『中島棕隠集』(上方芸文叢刊6巻)

(宮崎修多)

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