Tadamasa Murakami

Japanese: 村上忠順 - むらかみ・ただまさ

Year of death: November 23, 1884 (Meiji 17)
Year of birth: Bunka 9.4.1 (1812.5.11)
A Japanese scholar and poet from the late Edo period to the early Meiji period. His first name was Kenji. His pen name was Shokei, his pen names were Horo and Shihoju, and his bookshop was Senmakisha. He was the second son of Tadamichi and Yoshi, physicians of the Kariya domain in Mikawa (Aichi Prefecture). He studied Japanese classics under Hata Soro and Uematsu Shigetake, and in 1849 he became a pupil of Motoori Naito. He studied waka poetry under Watanabe Tsunamitsu and others. He followed in his father's footsteps and became physician to the domain lord Doi Toshiyoshi in 1853, while also lecturing on Japanese and Chinese classics and teaching waka poetry. His family anthologies include the Horoshu, his compilation of waka anthologies the Ruidai Tamamoshu, and his annotations the Sankiki Kashu Hyochyu. He was also renowned as a book collector, and his collection of around 25,000 books is housed in the Murakami Bunko collection at the Kariya City Library. In the Meiji era, he was summoned by Prince Arisugawa Taruhito to serve in Suruga and gave short lectures to the Meiji government.

(Yoichi Iikura)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治17.11.23(1884)
生年：文化9.4.1(1812.5.11)
江戸末期から明治前期の国学者。歌人。はじめの名は賢次。字は承卿,号を蓬廬,四方樹,書屋を千巻舎という。三河(愛知県)刈谷藩侍医忠幹と美志の次男。秦滄浪,植松茂岳に国学を学び,嘉永2(1849)年,本居内遠に入門。和歌は渡辺綱光らに学んだ。父の跡を継いで,6年,藩主土井利善の侍医となる一方,和漢籍の講義と和歌の指導をした。家集に『蓬廬集』,和歌選集の編纂に『類題玉藻集』,注釈に『散木棄歌集標注』などがある。蔵書家としても名高く,その蒐書約2万5000冊は刈谷市立図書館村上文庫に蔵される。明治に入って,有栖川宮熾仁親王に召され駿府に出仕したり,明治政府の少講義を勤めた。

(飯倉洋一)

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