Collection of Things Takayo - Mozume Takayo

Japanese: 物集高世 - もずめ・たかよ

Year of death: January 2, 1883
Year of birth: Bunka 14.2.1 (1817.3.18)
A scholar of Japanese classics during the Meiji Restoration period. Commonly known as Ubei and Jouemon, his pen name was Kugaya. He was the son of Shu Zenuemon, a merchant from Kitsuki (Kitsuki City) in Bungo Province. He studied under the Confucian scholar Motoda Chikukei and the Japanese classics scholar Sadamura Naoyoshi from Buzen, and later became a pupil of Hirata Tetsutane. In 1868 (Meiji 1), he was invited to lecture on Shinto scriptures at the Usa Academy in Buzen, and also served as a professor of Kitsuki Domain and a professor of Japanese classics at the domain school Gakushukan. He was ranked as a samurai, and the following year he became a missionary for the Jingikan, and in 1870 he became a junior doctor of missionary studies. He devoted his efforts to the study of Japanese language, and wrote works such as "Jigakukou" and "Hongenkou," as well as "Shinto Yoron." His son Takami was the editor of "Hirobunko" and promoted the movement for unification of spoken and written language. <References> "Revised and expanded Oita Prefecture biographies" edited by the Oita Prefectural Board of Education, "Kitsuki Local History" edited by the Kitsuki Town Committee

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治16.1.2(1883)
生年：文化14.2.1(1817.3.18)
幕末維新期の国学者。通称は卯兵衛,丈右衛門。号は葎屋。豊後国杵築(杵築市)の商人物集善右衛門の子。藩儒元田竹渓,豊前の国学者定村直好に学び,のち平田銕胤の門に入る。明治1(1868)年豊前の宇佐学館に請われて神典を講義,また杵築藩教授方,藩校学習館国学教授を兼任,士族に列せられ,翌年神祇官宣教使,3年宣教権少博士となる。国語の研究に力を注いだ『辞格考』『本言考』,また『神道余論』などの著がある。子の高見は『広文庫』の編者で言文一致運動を推進した。<参考文献>大分県教育会編『増補改訂大分県偉人伝』,杵築町委員会編『杵築郷土史』

(白石良夫)

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