Uchiyamaga Residence

Japanese: 内山賀邸 - うちやまがてい

1722‐88 (Kyoho 7‐Tenmei 8)
A kyoka poet of the mid-Edo period. Commonly known as Denzo, his given name was Naotoki, and his other name was Chinken. He was a shogunate official who lived in Kaga-cho, Ushigome, Edo, and taught Japanese classical literature and waka poetry to the children of the neighborhood. He liked one-sided kyoka and recommended it to his students, producing some of the greatest Tenmei kyoka poets, such as Yomono Akara, Karagoromo Kitsushu, Akera Kanko, and Hezutsu Tosaku. He compiled and wrote the waka poem "Ijushu" and the kyoka poem "Meiwa Jugoban Kyoka-awase." "If the heavens rumble and fall from time to time, apply moxa to the navel of the thunder" (Kyouka Wakaba-shu).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1722‐88(享保7‐天明8)
江戸中期の狂歌師。通称は伝蔵，名は淳時（なおとき），別号は椿軒（ちんけん）。江戸牛込加賀町に住した幕臣で，近隣の子弟に国学･歌学を教えていた。一面狂歌を好み門人にもすすめ，門下に四方赤良（よものあから），唐衣橘洲（からごろもきつしゆう），朱楽菅江（あけらかんこう），平秩東作（へずつとうさく）等天明狂歌の大立者を輩出した。編著は和歌に《遺珠集》，狂歌に《明和十五番狂歌合》。〈天のはら鳴りて時々下るなら灸すゑてやれ雷の臍〉(《狂歌若葉集》)。

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