Gonsai Asaka

Japanese: 安積艮斎 - あさか・ごんさい

Year of death: November 21, 1861 (January 1, 1861)
Year of birth: 2nd March 1791 (4th April 1791)
A Confucian scholar from the end of the Edo period. A Confucian scholar at the Shoheizaka Gakumonsho. His given name was Shigenobu or Nobu, and his pen names were Shijun or Shimei, commonly known as Yusuke. His pen names were Gonsai and Miyamaro. He was born as the third son of a priest at Koriyama Hachiman in Koriyama, Asaka County, Mutsu Province (Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture), and in Bunka 3 (1806) at the age of 16 he was married off to another family, but the following year he ran away to Edo to pursue academic studies, where he studied as a student servant for Sato Issai. In 1820 he was allowed to enter Hayashi Shosai's school, and the following year he opened a private school. His fame grew after he published Gonsai Bunryaku in 1832, and in 1834 he became a "Confucian scholar" for his hometown, Nihonmatsu Domain, and was given a stipend for three people, and in 1841 he became a professor of the domain's studies and was given a stipend of 150 koku. In 1850, he was appointed as a Confucian scholar attached to the Shogunate's Institute of Learning (receiving 200 bales of rice and a stipend for 15 people). At the time of Perry's arrival, he was also involved in translating the national document (written in classical Chinese) into Japanese. Gonsai is particularly known for his writings. His works include the aforementioned "Bunryaku" and its sequel, as well as the first and second volumes of "Gonsai Kanwa" and the essay "Nan Kayohen." <References> Ishii Kendo, "Azumi Gonsai Shoden"

(Hideo Umezawa)

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Japanese:

没年：万延1.11.21(1861.1.1)
生年：寛政3.3.2(1791.4.4)
幕末の儒学者。昌平坂学問所儒官。名は重信,信,字は思順,子明,通称祐助。号は艮斎,見山楼。陸奥国安積郡郡山(福島県郡山市)の郡山八幡の神職の家の3男として生まれ,文化3(1806)年16歳のとき他家に婿に出されたが,翌年学問を志して江戸に出奔し,佐藤一斎の学僕となって学んだ。20年には林述斎の塾にも入門を許され,その翌年ごろ私塾を開いた。天保3(1832)年『艮斎文略』を出版してから名声が高まり,7年郷里の二本松藩の「出入儒」となって3人扶持を給せられ,14年には藩学教授となって150石を給せられた。嘉永3(1850)年幕府の学問所付儒者に取り立てられた(切米200俵と15人扶持)。ペリー来航の際には国書(漢文)の和訳にも関与した。艮斎は特に文章をもって知られる。著書には上記『文略』および続編のほか,『艮斎閑話』正続,随筆『南柯余編』などがある。<参考文献>石井研堂『安積艮斎詳伝』

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