Lu Tong - Rodou

A Chinese poet from the mid-Tang Dynasty. His pen name is unknown. He was called Gyokusenshi. He was from Fanyang (Zhuo County, Hebei Province). He lived in a slum in Luoyang, did not serve, and did not like to associate with ordinary people, but his poetry and scholarship were highly praised by Han Yu. In November 835 (the 9th year of the Taihe era), he was killed as a collateral damage during the Ganlu Incident, in which Prime Minister Li Xun and others tried to wipe out the eunuchs' power but failed. He is famous for his strange poem "Lunar Eclipse Poem," which captures the astronomical phenomenon of a lunar eclipse with the image of a toad eating the moon, and his poem "I write to express my gratitude to Meng for the new tea he has sent me," and is known among tea masters in Japan along with Lu Yu, author of the "Cha Jing." He also has the "Tamagawako Shishu."

[Shigeru Saito]

Masahiko Yamanouchi and Tetsuo Naruse, Chinese Classical Poetry: Flowers 7 (1985, Shogaku Tosho)

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中国、中唐の詩人。字(あざな)不詳。玉川子(ぎょくせんし)と号す。范陽(はんよう)（河北省涿(たく)県）の人。洛陽(らくよう)の陋巷(ろうこう)に住んで仕えず、世人との交際を好まなかったが、韓愈(かんゆ)からその詩、学問を高く評価された。835年（太和9）11月、宰相の李訓(りくん)らが宦官(かんがん)勢力の一掃を図って失敗した甘露の変に際し、巻き添えとなって殺害された。蝦蟇(がま)が月を食うというイメージで天文現象の月食をとらえた怪奇な詩である「月蝕(げっしょく)詩」、および「筆を走らせて孟諫議(もうかんぎ)の新茶を寄せらるるに謝す」詩が著名であり、『茶経(ちゃきょう)』の著者陸羽(りくう)とともに、日本でも茶人の間に名を知られる。『玉川子詩集』がある。

［齋藤　茂］

『山之内正彦・成瀬哲生著『中国古典詩聚花7』（1985・尚学図書）』

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