Nobuna Nakayama

A scholar of Japanese classics in the late Edo period. Son of the doctor Sakamoto Genboku from Ishinazaka Village, Kuji County, Hitachi Province (Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture). Commonly known as Heishiro, later Jinshiro, and pen name Ryushu. In 1802 (Kyowa 2), at the age of 16, he went to Edo and became a disciple of Hanawa Hokiichi, where he devoted himself to the revision of Gunsho Ruiju. At the age of 23, he was adopted by the hatamoto Nakayama Yurin, and rose from the position of official documentary officer to the position of official documentary head. His name became widely known when Hokiichi became a professor at the Japanese Studies Kodansho. His many books are mainly historical and geographical, including "History of the Journeys of the South," "Studies on Nanzan," "Clan Reference Materials," "Studies on the Shugo and Jito," "Records of Hitachi's Regimes," "Hitachi Chronology," and "New Compilation of Hitachi Kokushi." However, "New Compilation of Hitachi Kokushi" was not completed during Nobuna's lifetime, and was revised and expanded by Irokawa Minaka and Kurita Hiroshi, and was compiled about 100 years later.

[Yoshio Sakuma]

"New Edition of Hitachi Kokushi (1969, Miyazaki Hoonkai/Reprint Edition, 1982, Hitachi Shobo)"

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江戸後期の国学者。常陸(ひたち)国久慈(くじ)郡石名坂(いしなざか)村（茨城県日立市）の医者坂本玄卜(げんぼく)の子。通称平四郎、のち甚四郎、号柳洲(りゅうしゅう)。1802年（享和2）16歳のとき江戸に出て、塙保己一(はなわほきいち)の門に入り『群書類従』編纂(へんさん)の校訂に力を尽くした。23歳のとき旗本中山有林(ゆうりん)の養子となり、書物御用出役(かきものごようでやく)から出役頭取(とうどり)に進む。保己一が和学講談所教授になったことにより、広く彼の名が世に出る。著書に『南巡逸史』『南山考』『氏族志料』『守護地頭(しゅごじとう)考』『常陸治乱記』『常陸編年』『新編常陸国誌』など歴史・地誌類を中心に多数あるが、『新編常陸国誌』は信名在世中完成せず、色川三中(いろかわみなか)、栗田寛(くりたかん)の修訂・増補を得て、約100年後に集大成された。

［佐久間好雄］

『『新編常陸国誌』（1969・宮崎報恩会／復刻版・1982・常陸書房）』

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