Tomonori Hatta

A poet from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. A samurai of the Satsuma domain. Nicknamed Kizaemon and pen name Toukou, he moved to Tokyo to study waka poetry under Kagawa Kageki (Keien), and as a Keien school poet he attracted attention for his debate with his senior Kumagai Naoyoshi over the interpretation of Kageki's preface to "Kokin Wakashu Seigi." After the Meiji Restoration, he served the Imperial Household Ministry as a waka-do official. As a native of the Satsuma domain and with fellow domain poets Takasaki Masakaze, Kuroda Kiyotsuna, and Saisho Atsuko as his disciples, he established the Keien school of waka poetry in the Imperial Court's poetry office. His poetry treatises based on Kageki's Shirabe no Setsu (The Theory of the Rhythm) include "Chiyo no Kodo" and "Tadaji no Choji," and his anthologies include "Shinobu-gusa" and "Miyakojima-shu." He is counted as one of the Ten Philosophers of the Katsura School. He died on September 2, 1873, at the age of 75.

[Masanori Kanekiyo]

The white clouds of evening on the peak of Mount Ohiei make for a lonely autumn.

"Fukushima Tama's 'Hata Tomoki' (included in 'Modern Literature Research Series 1', 1956, Koyokai)"

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幕末から明治の歌人。薩摩(さつま)藩士。通称は喜左衛門、号は桃岡(とうこう)。上京して香川景樹(かげき)（桂園(けいえん)）に和歌を学び、桂園派歌人としては、大先輩の熊谷直好(くまがいなおよし)との、景樹の『古今和歌集正義』序の解釈をめぐる論争で注目を浴びた。明治維新後は宮内省に歌道御用掛(ごようがかり)として出仕した。薩摩藩出身であることと、門下に同藩の高崎正風(まさかぜ)、黒田清綱、税所敦子(さいしょあつこ)を擁したこともあって、宮中御歌所(おうたどころ)に桂園派の歌風を築いた。景樹の「調(しらべ)の説」を受けた歌論書に『千代の古道』『調の直路(ただじ)』などがあり、家集に『しのぶ草』『都島(みやこじま)集』などがある。桂門十哲の1人に数えられている。明治6年9月2日没、75歳。

［兼清正徳］

　大比叡(おおひえ)の峰に夕ゐる白雲のさびしき秋になりにけるかな

『福島タマ著『八田知紀』（『近代文学研究叢書1』所収・1956・光葉会）』

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