Minamoto no Chikayuki

Japanese: 源親行 - みなもとのちかゆき

Year of death: After Bun'ei 9? (1272)
Year of birth: 1188
A classical scholar and poet of the Kamakura period. His Buddhist name was Kakuin. He was the son of Kawachi no Kami Minamoto no Mitsuyuki. He is famous as a scholar of Genji who took over his father's work and perfected the so-called Kawachi version of The Tale of Genji. He was a Shikibu no Daifu (master of the Imperial Court) and Kawachi no Kami. He served the Kamakura shogunate from before the Jokyu War in 1221, and served as the waka magistrate for three generations: Sanetomo, Yoritsune, and Munetaka. During the Jokyu War, he pleaded for the life of his father Mitsuyuki, who had joined the Imperial Court's side, and was granted it. He also had dealings with poets in Kyoto, including Fujiwara no Teika. In addition to The Tale of Genji, he also collated and copied the Manyoshu, collated and copied other classics such as the Kokinshu and Shin Kokinshu, and wrote the commentary on The Tale of Genji, Suigensho (lost), making a great achievement as a classical scholar living in Kamakura. As a poet, he had six poems included in imperial anthologies such as Zokugosenshu. He also had many of his poems included in the Shin Wakashu and Tosen Waka Rokujo, and appears to have been an important figure among the waka instructors in the Kanto region.

(Kumiko Tabuchi)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：文永9以降?(1272)
生年：文治4頃(1188)
鎌倉時代の古典学者,歌人。法名覚因。河内守源光行の子。父の業を継いで『源氏物語』のいわゆる河内本を大成した源氏学者として名高い。式部大夫,河内守。承久3(1221)年の承久の乱以前より鎌倉幕府に仕え,実朝,頼経,宗尊3代の和歌奉行を務める。承久の乱では院方に加わった父光行の助命を嘆願し許された。一方藤原定家ら在京の歌人達とも交渉があった。『源氏物語』のほか,『万葉集』を校勘,『古今集』『新古今集』などの古典も校合書写,また『源氏物語』の注釈書『水源抄』(散佚)を著すなど,鎌倉在住の古典研究者として多大な業績を残す。歌人としては『続後撰集』以下の勅撰集に6首入集。また『新和歌集』『東撰和歌六帖』に多数入集し,関東の和歌指導者のひとりとして重きをなしたらしい。

(田渕句美子)

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