Hironari Saibe - Hironari Saibe

Date of birth and death unknown. A Shinto official from the late 8th century to the early 9th century. Compiler of "Kogoshui". There is nothing about him in the official history except that in November 808 (Daido 3), he was awarded the rank of Junior Fifth Rank as a reward for serving at the Daijoe ceremony when Emperor Heizei ascended to the throne. Prior to this, the Saibe clan had a dispute with the Nakatomi clan over their duties, and Emperor Kanmu ruled that both clans should serve side by side. During this dispute, the Saibe clan claimed that "Our family has passed on various old theories that have not been included in the national histories and family notes," and they were eventually summoned by Emperor Heizei, and the result was the "Kogoshui." Hironari, who was over 80 years old, devoted himself to recording the historical events and also listed 11 points concerning the tyranny of the Nakatomi clan, requesting that they be rectified, but to no avail.

[Hiromichi Mayuzumi]

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生没年不詳。8世紀後半から9世紀初頭の神祇(じんぎ)官人。『古語拾遺(こごしゅうい)』の撰者(せんじゃ)。808年（大同3）11月、平城(へいぜい)天皇即位の大嘗会(だいじょうえ)に奉仕した賞として従(じゅ)五位下を授けられたこと以外、正史にはいっさいみえない。これより先、斎部氏はその職掌に関して中臣(なかとみ)氏と争い、桓武(かんむ)天皇から両氏相並んで奉仕すべき裁定を被ったが、この争論中、斎部氏は「わが家には、国史・家牒(かちょう)に漏れた種々の旧説を伝えている」と揚言したので、やがて平城天皇の召問を受けることとなり、かくてまとめられたものが『古語拾遺』である。齢(よわい)80に余る広成は情熱を傾けて旧説故事を録し、あわせて中臣氏の横暴11か条をあげ、これが是正を陳情したのであるが、結果はむなしかった。

［黛　弘道］

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