Mutobe Yoshika

Japanese: 六人部是香 - むとべ・よしか

Year of death: November 28, 1864 (January 7, 1864)
Year of birth: Bunka 3 (1806)
A scholar of Japanese classics, Shintoism, and waka poetry in the late Edo period. Commonly known as Nuidono and Mino no Kami. His pen names were Aoi-sha and Hisa-sha. Son of Mutsunobe Tadaatsu. His father died at a young age, and he was adopted by his uncle Mutsunobe Setsuka, a shrine official at Muko Shrine (Muko City), Otokuni County, Yamashiro Province, and succeeded him in his position. In 1823 (Bunsei 6), he went to Edo and became a pupil of Hirata Atsutane, studied hard, and was highly regarded as a leading figure in the Kansai region of the Hirata school. His book, Kenyujun Koron, divides human existence into the visible and invisible worlds and explains the nature of gods, and was given the honor of lecturing to Emperor Komei. In his later years, he handed over his position to his son Korefusa and retired, opening a Shinshusha school in Sanbongi, Kyoto, where he taught his students. He had a deep knowledge of waka poetry, and wrote Choka Gyokukin, which can be said to be the culmination of research into waka kaku (the rules of waka poetry). <References> Sasaki Nobutsuna “Kagakuron Series”

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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Japanese:

没年：文久3.11.28(1864.1.7)
生年：文化3(1806)
幕末の国学者,神道家,歌学者。通称は縫殿,美濃守。号は葵舎,篶舎。六人部忠篤の子。幼少に父と死別,伯父の山城国乙訓郡向日神社(向日市)祠官六人部節香の養子となり,その職を継いだ。文政6(1823)年江戸に出て平田篤胤に入門し,よく研鑽して,平田派関西の重鎮として重んじられた。その著『顕幽順考論』は,人間存在を顕と幽との両世界に分けて神の性質について説いたもので,孝明天皇に進講するという栄誉に浴した。晩年は職を子の是房に譲って隠居,京都三本木に神習舎を開いて門人に教授した。歌学の造詣深く,歌格(歌の規則)研究の集大成ともいうべき『長歌玉琴』を著した。<参考文献>佐佐木信綱『歌学論叢』

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