Yang Wanli

A poet of the Song Dynasty in China. His pen name was Tingxiu and his pen name was Seisai. He was from Jishui, Jizhou (Jishui County, Jiangxi Province). He was a Jinshi in 1154 (24th year of Shaoxing). He was a member of the resistance faction against the Jin Dynasty, and because of his inflexible personality and outspoken opinions of the government at the time, he was not promoted much in the central government and often moved between local offices. At the age of 36, he stopped imitating the poetry of the Jiangxi school and burned all his previous poems. After that, as his friend Louyaku said, "Each official should have one collection, and almost a thousand volumes have been circulated," he compiled a collection of poems for each post, and created over 3,000 poems up to his ninth collection, "Taikyu Collection." He expressed a wide range of subjects with slang-like ideas, forming a free and open style of poetry, saying, "All things come to me and offer me material for poetry," and he took pride in being a pure poet, singing, "I live and sleep, and if it is not poetry, I will not join in." He was one of the four great poets of the Southern Song Dynasty. He wrote the 132-volume "Seisaishu."

[Iseo Yokoyama]

``Chinese Poetry Collection 16 Song Poems Selection'' by Tenpaku Imazeki and Karashima Yoshi (1966, Shueisha)' ' ▽ ``Newly Revised Chinese Classics Selection Song Poems'' by Sensuke Iriya (1967, Asahi Shimbun)''

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中国、宋(そう)代の詩人。字(あざな)は廷秀(ていしゅう)、号は誠斎(せいさい)。吉(きっ)州吉水(きっすい)（江西省吉水県）の人。1154年（紹興24）の進士。金国に対する抗戦派で、剛直な性格と時政への直言のため、中央ではあまり出世できず、地方官を転々とすることが多かった。36歳のとき、江西派の詩の模倣をやめ、それまでの詩をすべて焼き捨てたという。以後、友人の楼鑰(ろうやく)が「一つの官ごとに一つの集を定め、流伝すること殆(ほと)んど千巻」というように、任地ごとに一つの詩集をまとめ、第九詩集の『退休(たいきゅう)集』まで3000余首をつくった。彼は「万象畢(ことごと)く来たりて予(われ)に詩材を献ず」と、幅広い題材を俗語的発想によって表現して、自由闊達(かったつ)な詩風を形成し、「予は遊居寝食、詩に非(あら)ざれば与(とも)に帰する無し」と歌って、純一な詩人を自負している。南宋四大家の一人。著に『誠斎集』132巻がある。

［横山伊勢雄］

『今関天彭・辛島驍著『漢詩大系16　宋詩選』（1966・集英社）』▽『入谷仙介著『新訂中国古典選　宋詩選』（1967・朝日新聞社）』

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