Asaino Sozui - Asaino Sozui

Japanese: 阿佐井野宗瑞 - あさいの・そうずい

Year of death: Tenbun 1.5.19 (1532.6.22)
Year of birth: Bunmei 5 (1473)
A publisher and businessman in the late Muromachi period. His pen name was Yukitei. His family was wealthy merchants in Sennan (Sakai City), whose trade name was either Notoya or Tonoya. He loved literature, and is said to have been knowledgeable in medicine and specialized in women's medicine (obstetrics and gynecology), but he was not a medical professional. He was a follower of Daibayashi Soso, a monk at Daitokuji Temple (his Buddhist name was Yukitei Sozui Koji). He invested his wealth in publishing businesses, which left his name in bibliography. He published the printing of "Santai Shi" (Asai-no edition) and the standalone edition of "Analects" (Tenmon edition, published posthumously in 1533). He also reprinted "Isho Taizen" (Complete Collection of Medical Books) written by Kuma Soritsu of the Ming Dynasty in 1528, with a postscript by Gesshu Jukei. This was the first printing of a medical book in Japan.

(Hiroshi Kozodo)

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

Japanese:

没年：天文1.5.19(1532.6.22)
生年：文明5(1473)
室町後期の出版人,事業家。号は雪庭。家は屋号を能登屋もしくは遠野屋と称した泉南(堺市)の豪商。文学を好み,医に通じて女科(産婦人科)を得意としたとも伝えられるが,職業医師ではなかったらしい。大徳寺の僧大林宗套に帰依した(法号は雪庭宗瑞居士)。財を出版事業に投じたことで書誌学上に名を残すこととなった。『三体詩』(阿佐井野版)の印行,単経本『論語』(天文版,没後1533年刊)の刊行がある。また明の熊宗立が著した『医書大全』を享禄1(1528)年,月舟寿桂の跋を付して復刻。これは日本最初の医書印刷である。

(小曾戸洋)

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