Sadao Miyaoi

Japanese: 宮負定雄 - みやおい・やすお

Year of death: September 23, 1858 (October 29, 1858)
Year of birth: September 10, 1797 (October 29, 1797)
A scholar of Japanese classics in the late Edo period. He was originally known as Monzo and later Sahei. He was known as a practitioner of archery and Kirei Dojin. He was the eldest son of Miyake Sadakata, the headman of Matsuzawa Village, Katori County, Shimousa Province (Higata Town, Chiba Prefecture). His father was a student of Hirata Atsutane, and Sadao also became a disciple of Atsutane in 1826. After succeeding him as headman, he devoted himself to village administration, while also endeavoring to instruct on everything from the nature of agriculture to specific agricultural techniques through writings such as Minka Yojutsu, Kokueki Honron, Nougyou Yoshu, and Kusaki Senshu Roku. However, he failed in village administration due to a poor harvest in 1833, and wandered from place to place. He returned to the village around the Kaei period (1848-1854), but his subsequent writings became more and more colored in the idealistic style characteristic of Hirata studies, and his former practical attitude disappeared. <References> Noboru Kawana, "Agricultural Management of a Village Landowner in Shimousa" (Chiba Keizai Junior College Business and Economics Review No. 7)

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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没年：安政5.9.23(1858.10.29)
生年：寛政9.9.10(1797.10.29)
江戸後期の国学者。通称は初め門蔵,のち佐平。弓道人,亀齢道人と号す。下総国香取郡松沢村(千葉県干潟町)の名主宮負定賢の長男。父は平田篤胤の門人で,定雄も文政9(1826)年篤胤に入門した。名主を継いで村政に力を注ぐかたわら,『民家要術』『国益本論』『農業要集』『草木撰種録』などの著述によって農業のあり方から具体的な農業技術にわたって指導に努めた。しかし,天保4(1833)年の凶作によって村政に失敗,各地を放浪した。嘉永(1848～54)のころ村に帰ったが,以後の著述は平田学特有の観念論的色彩が強くなって,かつての実践的姿勢が姿を消してしまった。<参考文献>川名登「下総における一村方地主の農業経営」(『千葉経済短期大学商経論集』7号)

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