Rikukimo

A Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty. His pen name was Lu Wang. He was from Suzhou (Jiangsu Province). He failed the imperial examination and served as a staff officer for a local government official for a time, but eventually retired to Fu Li in Songjiang (Jiangsu Province) and ended his carefree life of farming and reading in the rain and in the sun. This, along with Pi Ri Xiu, with whom he recited poems in the "Shōryō-shu", can be said to have shown a new way of life for scholars in the late Tang Dynasty. His style of poetry expresses gentle emotions and is praised as extremely elegant. His collection of poems and prose is also called the 20-volume "Collection of Tang Fu Li Sensei's Writings" after the place where he retired, or the four-volume "Kasazawa Sosho" after another name for Matsue, Kasazawa. His essays (short pieces) are rich in metaphors and satire, and were later praised by Lu Xun as sharp criticism of reality.

[Kazuo Noguchi]

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中国、晩唐の詩人。字(あざな)は魯望(ろぼう)。蘇(そ)州（江蘇省）の人。科挙に及第せず、一時、地方官の幕僚となって出仕したものの、やがて松江(しょうこう)（江蘇省）の甫里(ほり)に隠棲(いんせい)して晴耕雨読の気ままな生涯を終えた。これは、彼と『松陵集』で詩を唱和しあった皮日休(ひじつきゅう)とともに、晩唐期における士人の新しい生き方を示したものといえる。詩風は穏やかな情感を詠じ、きわめて清麗と評される。詩文集はその隠棲の地にちなんで『唐甫里先生文集』20巻とも、松江の別名、笠沢(りゅうたく)にちなんで『笠沢叢書(そうしょ)』四巻ともいう。その雑文（小品文(しょうひんぶん)）は比喩(ひゆ)や風刺に富み、後の魯迅(ろじん)によって鋭い現実批判の文章として称賛されたものである。

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