Heishuu Hosoi

A Confucian scholar of the Eclectic School in the late Edo period. Born to a farmer in Owari (Aichi Prefecture). His given name was Tokumin and his pen name was Seiko. He was commonly known as Jinzaburo and was also known as Nyorai Sanjin. He studied under Nakanishi Tan'en (1709-1752), a practical scholar of the Eclectic School in Nagoya, and after his teacher's death, he instructed his disciples. In 1745 (Enkyo 2), he visited Nagasaki and learned Chinese pronunciation from a Chinese person. In 1759 (Horeki 9), he opened a private school called Oumeikan in Edo. Heishu was famous as a guest teacher to Tokugawa Harusada (1728-1789), the heir of Saijo Domain, and to Uesugi Harunori (1759-1789), the lord of Yonezawa Domain. Heishu's Omeikan Isho was written based on his own educational practice and is an excellent treatise on education. In his later years, he became the president of Meirindo in the Owari Domain, and was involved in the administration and education of the domain.

[Ryoen Minamoto July 19, 2016]

"The Complete Works of Heishu (1921, Ryubunkan)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

江戸後期の折衷(せっちゅう)学派の儒者。尾張(おわり)（愛知県）の農民の子として生まれる。名は徳民、字(あざな)は世馨(せいこう)。通称甚三郎、別名を如来山人といった。名古屋の折衷学派の実学者中西淡淵(なかにしたんえん)（1709―1752）に師事、師の没後その門弟を指導。1745年（延享2）長崎に遊び、唐人から華音を学んだ。1759年（宝暦9）江戸に私塾嚶鳴館(おうめいかん)を開いた。著書に『詩経古伝』（1759）『嚶鳴館詩集』（1764）、遺著に『つらつらふみ』（1802）『嚶鳴館遺稿』（1809）『嚶鳴館遺草』（1835）『平洲先生感懐詩』がある。平洲は諸藩の経世の実践者として優れ、また教育的感化力に富んだ。西条藩世子のちの徳川治貞(とくがわはるさだ)（1728―1789）、米沢(よねざわ)藩藩主上杉治憲(うえすぎはるのり)の賓師(ひんし)として有名。『嚶鳴館遺草』は彼の教育的実践を基礎として書かれたもので教育論として優れている。晩年には尾張藩の明倫堂総裁となり、藩の行政と教育に参画した。

［源　了圓　2016年7月19日］

『『平洲全集』（1921・隆文館）』

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