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A monk from the late Kamakura period. He is also known as Dokyo, Ichien, and Daien Kokushi. He is said to have been born to the descendants of the Kajiwara clan, a vassal of the Kamakura shogunate, but he had few ties with his relatives, and after moving around from Kamakura to Shimotsuke (Tochigi Prefecture) and Hitachi (Ibaraki Prefecture), he became a monk and retired at the age of 28. After that, he studied various exoteric and esoteric sects widely at temples in Nara, Kyoto, and Kamakura. After 1262 (Kōchō 2), at the age of 37, he became the chief priest of Choboji Temple in Kigasaki, Owari Province (Nagoya City). As he himself said, "I have loved stories since ancient times, and because I served as a samurai, I took time from my training to write down idle things," he was a born storyteller, and in his later years he compiled a collection of Buddhist tales, both serious and light, writing works such as "Shasekishu" (1283) and "Zatsutanshu" (1305). The world of local samurai and common people is depicted in a simple style.

[Takayuki Kojima]

"Research on Tales and Haikai" by Ando Naotaro (1979, Kasama Shoin)

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鎌倉後期の僧。道暁、一円、大円国師ともいう。鎌倉幕府の幕臣梶原(かじわら)氏の裔(すえ)に生まれたといわれるが、肉親の縁に薄く、鎌倉をはじめ下野(しもつけ)（栃木県）、常陸(ひたち)（茨城県）などを転々としたのち出家し、28歳で遁世(とんせい)。以後、奈良、京都、鎌倉の諸寺で広く顕密諸宗を学ぶ。37歳の1262年（弘長2）以後、尾張(おわり)国木賀崎(きがさき)（名古屋市）の長母寺(ちょうぼじ)の住職となった。自ら「昔より物語を愛し好み侍(はべ)りしゆゑに、修行の暇(いとま)をかきて、徒(いたづ)ら事を書き置」いたと述べているように、生来の話し好きで、晩年、硬軟取り混ぜた仏教説話を編纂(へんさん)し、『沙石(しゃせき)集』（1283）、『雑談(ぞうたん)集』（1305）などを著した。地方の武士や庶民の世界が平明な文体で描き出されている。

［小島孝之］

『安藤直太朗著『説話と俳諧の研究』（1979・笠間書院）』

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