Oe Otondo - Oe no Otondo

Japanese: 大江音人 - おおえのおとんど

Year of death: 11/3/877 (12/11/877)
Year of birth: 811
A nobleman and scholar in the early Heian period. Also known as "Otohito." He was the eldest son of Bitchu Gonnosuke Oeda no Motonushi (Sandai Jitsuroku, Records of Three Generations). Therefore, he was the grandson of Prince Aho. The Sonpi Bunmyaku records that his mother was a maid of Aho, a member of the Nakatomi clan, but there is some doubt as to his age. He studied under Sugawara Kiyonori, and after serving as a monsho and a Togu Gakushi, he became a councilor in 864. In October of the same year, he changed his surname from Oeda to Oe, with the intention of prospering endlessly like the sea (which leads to the river), and became the founder of the Go clan and was called Go Sogo. He was well versed in political systems and historical events, and is said to have been consulted by the Imperial Court whenever there was a question. He was also known as a scholar, and was called a "Confucian scholar," as he lectured Emperor Seiwa on the Records of the Grand Historian. He wrote the memorial and preface to the Records of the Jogan Period, and participated in the compilation of the Montoku Jitsuroku. He also compiled the "Koteihan" and "Gunshiyoran" but these have been lost along with his family anthology "Eonjinshu". There is a theory that he was implicated in the Jowa Incident (842) and exiled to Owari (Aichi Prefecture) and returned to Kyoto two years later ("Kugyo Bunin"), but this cannot be confirmed in official histories.

(Murai Yasuhiko)

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

Japanese:

没年：元慶1.11.3(877.12.11)
生年：弘仁2(811)
平安前期の公卿,学者。「おとひと」とも。備中権介大枝本主の長男(『三代実録』)。したがって阿保親王の孫に当たり,『尊卑分脈』は母は阿保の侍女,中臣氏とするが,年齢の点で疑問がある。菅原清公に師事し文章生,東宮学士などを経て貞観6(864)年参議,同8年10月,海(江に通ずる)のように尽きることなく栄えよとの意をこめて大枝から大江に改姓,江家の祖となり,江相公と称された。政体,故事に詳しく,疑義あるごとに朝廷から諮問を受けたという。また清和天皇に『史記』を進講したように学者としても知られ,「通儒」と称された。『貞観格式』の上表文と式序をつくり,『文徳実録』の編纂にも参画した。『弘帝範』『群籍要覧』なども編纂したが,家集『江音人集』とともに散佚して伝わらない。承和の変(842)に連座して尾張(愛知県)に配流され2年後帰京したとの説もあるが(『公卿補任』),正史では確認できない。

(村井康彦)

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