Hirate Brewery - Hirate Miki

Japanese: 平手造酒 - ひらて・みき

Year of death: 1844.9.18 (1844.9.18)
Year of birth: Unknown. A bodyguard for gamblers in the late Edo period, and a wandering ronin. His real name was Hirata Fukaki. His given name was also written as Fukaki or Mikame. According to one theory, after a period of wandering, he was taken refuge with a village headman in Katori County, Shimousa Province (Chiba Prefecture), where he opened a sword-fighting dojo. It is said that in 1844 (Tenpo 15), he joined Iioka Sukegoro in the capture of gambler Sasagawa Shigezo and his gang on the banks of the Tone River, and was killed while assisting Shigezo. In the later storytelling and rokyoku "Tenpo Suikoden," he is portrayed as a master of the Hokushin Itto-ryu style of swordsmanship trained at the Chiba dojo in Otamaike, Edo, and a wandering ronin who had fallen ill, and became a character that was just as popular as Shigezo and Sukegoro.

(Bin Takahashi)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：弘化1.8.7(1844.9.18)
生年：生年不詳
江戸後期の博徒の用心棒,無宿浪人。本名は平田深喜。名は深木,三亀とも書く。一説には流浪の末,下総国香取郡(千葉県)の名主に身を寄せ,剣術道場を開いていた浪人といわれる。天保15(1844)年利根川河原での博徒笹川繁蔵一味の召し捕りにからむ飯岡助五郎との出入りに際し,繁蔵方の助っ人として加わり斬死したとされる。後年の講談,浪曲の「天保水滸伝」では江戸お玉ケ池の千葉道場仕込みの北辰一刀流の使い手にして病の末の素浪人として描かれ,繁蔵,助五郎に劣らぬキャラクターとなって人気を博した。

(高橋敏)

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