Fujitani Mitsue

A Japanese scholar and poet of the late Edo period. His first name was Nariju, later Nariharu, and later changed to Mitsue. He went by the pen name Kitanobe. He was born in Kyoto to a Japanese linguist named Nariakira. He was influenced ideologically and academically by his uncle, the Confucian scholar Minagawa Kien. He served the Yanagawa Domain in Chikugo (Fukuoka Prefecture), but in his later years he had his stipend confiscated for misconduct. His thought had a pronounced metaphysical tendency, and his analysis of the relationship between human emotions, daily activities, and linguistic expression was restricted by a moral superiority, but was unique as a literary theory, and his grasp of the characteristics of literary language was explained as the "inverted idiom" theory. His writings cover a wide range of subjects, including Shintoism, poetry, grammar, and poetry composition, including the Kojiki Tomoshibi (completed in 1807), Manyoshu Tomos, Hyakunin Isshu Tomos (1804), Makoto no Ben, and Kitabe Zuihitsu (1816), as well as a collection of poems and prose compiled by Igarashi Atsuyoshi (1794-1861).

[Haruo Fujihira July 19, 2016]

"Kitabe Essays" (included in "Japanese Essays Collection New Edition 1st Period 15", 1976, Yoshikawa Kobunkan) " Miyake Kiyoshi ed., "New Edition Fujitani Mitsue Complete Works", 8 volumes (1979-1993, Shibunkaku Publishing)"

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江戸後期の国学者、歌人。初名成寿(なりのぶ)、のち成元(なりはる)、さらに御杖と改名。北辺(きたのべ)と号した。国語学者成章(なりあきら)を父に、京都に生まれる。伯父の儒学者皆川淇園(みながわきえん)に思想的、学問的影響を受けている。筑後(ちくご)（福岡県）柳河(やながわ)藩に仕えたが、晩年不行跡の理由で禄(ろく)を没収された。その思想は形而上(けいじじょう)学的傾向が目だち、人間の情動と生活行動と言語表現との関係の分析は、道徳的優位に制約されているものの、文学論として独自性があり、その文学的言語の特性把握は「倒語」説として説かれた。著作は神道(しんとう)論、歌論、語法、作歌法などにわたり、『古事記灯(ともしび)』（1807成立）『万葉集灯』『百人一首灯』（1804）『真言弁(まことのべん)』『北辺随筆』（1816）などのほかに五十嵐篤好(いがらしあつよし)（1794―1861）編の歌文集がある。

［藤平春男　2016年7月19日］

『『北辺随筆』（『日本随筆大成新版　1期15』所収・1976・吉川弘文館）』▽『三宅清編『新編富士谷御杖全集』全8巻（1979～1993・思文閣出版）』

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