Wang Ji

Japanese: 王績 - おうせき（英語表記）Wang Ji

[Born] Kaioh 5 (585)
[Died] Jogan 18 (644)
A Chinese poet and hermit from the late Sui and early Tang dynasties. He was from Longmen, Jiangzhou (west of Hejin, Shanxi Province). His pen name was Wugong. His pen name was Donggaozi. He was the younger brother of the Confucian scholar Wang Tong (Wen Zhongzi). He passed the imperial examination during the Daye period of the Sui dynasty and became a secretary-general, but he hated being in the imperial court and became a magistrate in Liuhe County, Yangzhou. However, he drank too much and did not do his work, and when the world became chaotic at the end of the Sui dynasty, he quickly returned to his hometown. At the beginning of the Tang dynasty, he was called back to work, and was given a post as a disciple and a minister because he could drink three sho of sake a day. He was eventually given one tou of sake in particular, so he was called the "Scholar of Dou Wine." He eventually resigned from this position and sought out the services of Jiao Ge, the history officer of the Taile Office, who was a master of wine brewing. When Ge died, he retired to the Yellow River and spent the rest of his life with wine and the calligraphy of the Laozi and Zhuangzi. He admired Tao Yuanming and Ruan Ji, and wrote many poems about wine that incorporated their philosophy, as well as poems about rural life.

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Japanese:

[生]開皇5(585)
[没]貞観18(644)
中国，隋末唐初の詩人，隠士。絳州竜門 (山西省河津の西) の人。字，無功。号，東皐子 (とうこうし) 。儒者王通 (文中子) の弟。隋の大業年間に科挙に合格，秘書省正字となったが，朝廷内にいることを嫌い，揚州六合県の丞となった。しかしここでも酒ばかり飲んで仕事をせず，隋末で世の中が混乱するとさっさと郷里へ帰った。唐初，召されて再び仕官，日に3升の酒が飲めるという理由で門下省待詔となり，やがて特に1斗の酒が支給されるようになったので「斗酒学士」と呼ばれた。やがてこの職も辞し，みずから求めて酒造りの名人の太楽署史焦革のもとに参じたが，革が死ぬと黄河のほとりに隠棲し，酒と老荘の書とを友として一生を終えた。陶淵明，阮籍 (げんせき) らを慕って，酒を詠じるなかにその哲学をこめ，また田園生活を題材とした詩が多い。詩文集『東皐子集』 (3巻) 。

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