Nakanoin Michimura - Nakanoin Michimura

Japanese: 中院通村 - なかのいん・みちむら

Year of death: 29th February, 1653 (28th March, 1653)
Year of birth: January 26, 1588 (February 22, 1588)
A nobleman in the early Edo period. Son of Gon Chunagon Nakain Michikatsu. His mother was the daughter of Isshiki Sakyo no Daifu Yoshitsugu. In 1613 (Keicho 18), he was appointed Uchūjō, in 1619 he was appointed councilor, in 1617 he was appointed Gon Chunagon, in 1629 he was appointed Buke Densō, and in 1629 he was promoted to Gon Dainagon. He was highly trusted by Emperor Gomizunoo and tried to mediate between the Imperial Court and the shogunate, but in November of the same year, the Emperor suddenly abdicated in favor of Princess Okishi, and the shogunate dismissed him from his position as Buke Densō the following September for not reporting this to him in advance. In March of 1630, he was summoned to Edo and imprisoned at Kan'ei-ji Temple in Ueno until October. He was pardoned and returned to Kyoto thanks to the good offices of the monk Tenkai. In 1647 (Shohō 4), he became Naidaijin. Michimura excelled in calligraphy in the Sesonji school, and also held a leading position in the poetry circles of Emperor Gomizunoo in the early modern period. He lectured on the Tale of Genji at the Empress's palace on July 18, 1616, and from the 20th of the same month to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and from April 25 to May 9, 1617 to Emperor Gomizunoo. He fully demonstrated his abilities as the successor to the Genji studies established by his father Michikatsu, and gained the utmost trust as a member of the inner circle of court nobles who were close to Emperor Gomizunoo. He was buried at Rosanji Temple in Kyoto. He wrote the Nakanoin Michimura Diary. <References> Honda Keiko, "Emperor Gomizunoo's Imperial Court Academic Lectures" (Shoryobu Kiyo, No. 29), Mori Miwa, "Reorganization of the Inner Circle of the Imperial Court's Small Guard" (Nihonshi Kenkyu, No. 277)

(Mother Miwa)

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没年：承応2.2.29(1653.3.28)
生年：天正16.1.26(1588.2.22)
江戸前期の公家。権中納言中院通勝の子。母は一色左京大夫義次の娘。慶長18(1613)年右中将,19年参議,元和3(1617)年権中納言,同9年には武家伝奏となり,寛永6(1629)年権大納言に昇る。後水尾天皇の信任厚く朝廷と幕府間の斡旋に努めたが,同年11月,天皇が突如興子内親王に譲位したため幕府から事前に報告しなかったとの理由で翌年9月武家伝奏を罷免され,さらに12年3月には江戸へ召され10月まで上野寛永寺に幽閉される。僧天海の周旋により許され帰京。正保4(1647)年内大臣となる。通村は世尊寺流の書をよくし,また近世前期の後水尾院歌壇において指導的立場にあった。元和1年7月18日の女院御所における源氏物語講釈をはじめとして,同月20日からは徳川家康に,2年4月25日から5月9日にかけて後水尾天皇にも講釈するなど,父通勝の築いた源氏学の後継者としてその力量をいかんなく発揮し,後水尾院側近の内々衆公家として絶大な信頼を得た。京都廬山寺に葬られる。『中院通村日記』がある。<参考文献>本田慧子「後水尾天皇の禁中御学問講」(『書陵部紀要』29号),母利美和「禁裏小番内々衆の再編」(『日本史研究』277号)

(母利美和)

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