Emura Hokkai - Emura Hokkai

A Confucian scholar and Chinese poet of the mid-Edo period. His given name was Ju, and his pen name was Kimsoku. He was from Kyoto. He was the second son of the Confucian scholar Ito Ryushu (1683-1755), and inherited the prestigious Emura family, which was also a member of the Confucian world of Kyoto. He was known as a brilliant scholar along with his elder brother Ito Kinri (1710-1772) and younger brother Seita Danso (1719-1785). He studied Neo-Confucianism, and although he lacked original insight, he cultivated many disciples with his moderate academic style. He was also deeply interested in poetry and prose, and in the Chinese poetry world at the time, the style of the Kobunji school, which was committed to imitating the poetry of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, was influential, but he wrote "History of Japanese Poetry" and "Selected Japanese Poems" from the standpoint of correcting the excesses of this style, and was instrumental in establishing Chinese poetry in the Japanese culture.

[Tatsuo Hino April 18, 2016]

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江戸中期の儒学者、漢詩人。名は綬(じゅ)、字(あざな)は君錫。京都の人。儒学者伊藤龍洲(いとうりゅうしゅう)（1683―1755）の二男で、同じ京都儒学界の名門江村氏を継いだ。兄の伊藤錦里(きんり)（1710―1772）、弟の清田儋叟(せいたたんそう)（1719―1785）とともに俊才として聞こえた。学統は朱子学で、独自の見識には乏しいが、穏健な学風で多くの門人を育てた。詩文にも関心が深く、当時の漢詩壇では盛唐詩の模倣に徹する古文辞派の詩風が有力であったが、これの行き過ぎを是正する立場から『日本詩史』『日本詩選』を著し、漢詩を日本の風土に定着させるのに功績があった。

［日野龍夫　2016年4月18日］

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