Hirose Asahi-so

A Chinese poet and Confucian scholar from the late Edo period. He was commonly known as Kenkichi and his pen name was Kippo. Kyokuso was his pen name. He was originally called Akimura, and later took the name Baiton. He was posthumously given the posthumous name Bunbin Sensei. He was from Hita, Bungo Province (Hita City, Oita Prefecture), and was the youngest brother of Tanso. He became the adopted son of the childless Tanso for a time, and ran the Kan'i-en school, but he did not get along with the district magistrate Shionoya, so he left Hita in 1836 (Tenpo 7) and opened a school in Sakai, Senshu (Osaka Prefecture). He later established schools in Edo and Osaka, but his forte was poetry; in the anthology "Toei Poetry Selection," which brought together over a hundred poets from the Tokugawa period, Yu Quyuan (Yu Yuetsu) of the Qing dynasty allowed Kyokuso to occupy two volumes alone, praising him as "the crown jewel of eastern poets."

[Tetsushi Furukawa June 20, 2016]

"The Complete Works of Hirose Kyokuso, ed., The Editorial Committee for the Complete Works of Hirose Kyokuso, 11 volumes (1982-2010, Shibunkaku Publishing)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

江戸後期の漢詩人、儒学者。通称は謙吉、字(あざな)は吉甫(きっぽ)。旭荘はその号。初め秋村と号し、のち別に梅墩(ばいとん)と号した。死後の諡(おくりな)を文敏(ぶんびん)先生という。豊後国(ぶんごのくに)日田(ひた)（大分県日田市）の人で、淡窓(たんそう)の末弟。一時子のない淡窓の義子となり、咸宜園(かんぎえん)の塾政をみたが、郡代塩谷(しおのや)氏と性情があわず、1836年（天保7）日田を去り、泉州（大阪府）堺(さかい)に塾を開いた。のち江戸や大坂でも塾を設けたが、もっとも得意としたのは詩作で、清(しん)の兪曲園(ゆきょくえん)（兪樾(ゆえつ)）は徳川氏以来の詩人百数十家を集めた日本漢詩の選集『東瀛(とうえい)詩選』で、旭荘ひとりだけに2巻を占めることを許し、「東国詩人の冠」とたたえた。

［古川哲史　2016年6月20日］

『広瀬旭荘全集編集委員会編『広瀬旭荘全集』全11巻（1982～2010・思文閣出版）』

出典　小学館　日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について　情報 | 凡例