Kotomichi Okuma - Ookuma Kotomichi

Japanese: 大隈言道 - おおくま・ことみち

Year of death: 29th July 1861 (15th September 1868)
Year of birth: 1798
A poet from the late Edo period. Commonly known as Seisuke, and pen name Ikepeido. Born to a merchant family in Hoan Gakubashi, Yakuin, Fukuoka. His father was Shigeakimoto and his mother was the daughter of Nobukuni Matazaemon Mitsumasa. At a young age, he became a disciple of Futagawa Sochika and learned poetry and calligraphy. By the age of 35, he had acquired a unique style of poetry that was different from the past, and around this time Nomura Boto and his wife became his disciples. In 1836 (Tenpo 7), at the age of 39, he handed over the family business to his younger brother Seiemon Motonori and retired to Ikepeido in Imaizumi. At the age of 42, he entered the Kan'i-en school of Hirose Tanso in Hita, Bungo, to study Chinese classics. In 1857 (Ansei 4), at the age of 60, he went to Osaka to settle his many years of waka poetry training. During this time, he became acquainted with Nakajima Hirotari, Hagiwara Hiromichi, and Kondo Yoshiki, and corresponded with Sasaki Hirotsuna. In 1858, he selected from tens of thousands of waka poems and published the "Okyoshu" and "Imabashishu", and in 1863, he further selected and published the three volumes of the "Sokeishu", and in the same year, he selected the preface to the "Koryōshu" collection of poems by Bohō. Around this time, he suffered from strokes, and in his final years, he returned to Fukuoka and passed away at Ikehidō. His essays on waka include "Hitorigochi" and "Kozo no Chiri", and in the former he rejects typical poems that he calls "mokuka" (puppet poems) and, with the bold declaration that "I am a Tenpo resident", he advocates composing poems that are conscious of the here and now. <References> Ueda Hideo, "Okuma Gendō" (Japanese Poets Lecture Series, Volume 5)

(Yoichi Iikura)

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没年：明治1.7.29(1868.9.15)
生年：寛政10(1798)
江戸末期の歌人。通称清助,号池萍堂。福岡薬院抱安学橋の商家に生まれた。父は茂助言朝,母は信国又左衛門光昌の娘。幼少のころ,二川相近の門に入り,歌と書を学んだ。35歳のころまでに従来と異なる独自の歌風を獲得,このころ野村望東夫妻が入門した。天保7(1836)年,39歳のとき,家業を弟清右衛門言則に譲り,今泉の池萍堂に隠居した。42歳,豊後日田の広瀬淡窓の咸宜園に入門し漢学を学んだ。安政4(1857)年,60歳のとき,大坂に上り,多年の和歌修業の決算をしようとした。このとき,中島広足,萩原広道,近藤芳樹と交わり,佐々木弘綱と文通する。安政6年に数万首の和歌から選んで『鳧居集』『今橋集』を選し,文久3(1863)年,さらに厳選して『草径集』3巻を刊行,同年,望東の歌集『向陵集』の序を選した。このころから中風の症に苦しみ,最晩年は福岡に帰り,池萍堂で没した。歌論に『ひとりごち』『こぞのちり』があり,前者には「木偶歌」と称する類型的な歌を排し,「吾は天保の民なり」という高らかな宣言とともに,今とここを自覚した作歌を主張している。<参考文献>上田英夫「大隈言道」(『日本歌人講座』5巻)

(飯倉洋一)

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