Shuhei Mitsukuri

Western scholar. Born on December 8, 1828 (January 15, new calendar) as the second son of Kikuchi Shiro, a Confucian scholar of the Tsuyama Domain. He studied under Mitsukuri Genpo, Ogata Koan, and others, and in 1850 (Kaei 3) he was adopted by Genpo and married his second daughter, Tsune (after Tsune's death, he remarried Genpo's third daughter, Chima). From 1859 (Ansei 6) he worked as an assistant professor at the Bansho Shirabesho (Institute for the Investigation of Foreign Documents). In 1861 (Bunkyu 1), he accompanied a Shogunate envoy to Europe and Russia. After the Meiji Restoration, he did not want to serve the new Meiji government, which was a former advocate of expelling foreigners, and opened a private school called Sansha Gakusha. In 1874 (Meiji 7), he founded Meirokusha with Mori Arinori and others, and soon after became its president and a member of what would later become the Tokyo Academy. He also served as the director of the Higher Normal School for a time. He passed away on December 3, 1886. His children were Kikuchi Dairoku, Mitsukuri Kakichi, and Genpachi.

[Yasushi Okada]

"'Mitsukuri Akitsubyo and His Surroundings' by Jiromaru Kenzo (1970, Mitsukuri Akitsubyo Biography Publishing Association)"

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洋学者。文政(ぶんせい)8年12月8日（新暦1月15日）、津山藩の儒者菊池士郎の二男として生まれる。箕作阮甫(げんぽ)、緒方洪庵(おがたこうあん)らに学び、1850年（嘉永3）阮甫の養子となりその二女つねと結婚（つねの死後、阮甫の三女千万(ちま)と再婚）。1859年（安政6）から蕃書調所(ばんしょしらべしょ)教授手伝。1861年（文久1）幕使に随行しヨーロッパ、ロシアを回る。大政奉還後、かつての攘夷(じょうい)論者の明治新政府に仕えるのを好まず、私塾三叉学舎(さんしゃがくしゃ)を開いた。1874年（明治7）森有礼(ありのり)らと明六社(めいろくしゃ)をおこしてまもなく社長、ついでその後身東京学士会院の会員。一時期、高等師範学校摂理などを務めた。明治19年12月3日死去。子に菊池大麓(だいろく)、箕作佳吉、元八がある。

［岡田靖雄］

『持郎丸憲三著『箕作秋坪とその周辺』（1970・箕作秋坪伝記刊行会）』

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