Yoshikiyo Yokoyama

Japanese: 横山由清 - よこやま・よしきよ

Year of death: December 2, 1879
Year of birth: 1826
A scholar of Japanese classics and legal historian in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. Commonly known as Hozo and pen name Getsusha. Born in Edo as the son of Tsukagoshi Takaaki. He studied waka poetry under the female poet Yokoyama Keishi, and was adopted by her, taking the surname Yokoyama. Later he studied waka poetry under Inoue Fumio, and Japanese classics under Homma Yusei and Ino Akinori. He was knowledgeable about national historical texts, and excelled in ancient ritsuryo codes. He served as a professor at the Wagakaku Kodansho, and after the Meiji Restoration he was invited by the new government to become an editor of the official newsletter for the System Bureau. He was also knowledgeable about Dutch studies, and used his knowledge of the legal systems of both the east and west to work hard to improve Japan's modern legal system. In 1855, he became a junior secretary in the Senate, and worked with Kurokawa Masayori and others to compile the "Imperial Succession Chapter," "Criminal Law Chapter," and "Family Registration Chapter" of the "Kyuten Ruisan." In his later years he lectured on the history of ancient Japanese legal systems at Tokyo Imperial University.

(Yoshio Shiraishi)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治12.12.2(1879)
生年：文政9(1826)
幕末明治初期の国学者,法制史家。通称,保三。号,月舎。塚越敬明の子として江戸に生まれる。女性歌人横山桂子に和歌を学び,その養子となって横山姓を名乗る。のち和歌を井上文雄に,国学を本間游清,伊能穎則に学んだ。国史典故に詳しく,古代律令を得意とした。和学講談所教授を務め,維新後は新政府に招かれて制度局御用掛語箋編輯となった。蘭学にも詳しく,東西の法律制度の知識を生かして日本の近代法律制度の整備に尽力した。8年,元老院少書記官になると,黒川真頼らと『旧典類纂』の「皇位継承篇」「刑法篇」「戸籍篇」などの編纂に従った。晩年は東京帝国大学で日本古代法制史を講じた。

(白石良夫)

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