Masayoshi Ozaki

Japanese: 尾崎雅嘉 - おざき・まさよし

Year of death: 1827.11.21 (1827.10.3)
Year of birth: 1755
A scholar of Japanese classics in the mid-to-late Edo period. His pen name was Yuuyu. He was commonly known as Shunzo (Shunzo). His pen names were Rogetsu, Hakukochi Kondo, and Kayo. He was from Osaka. His father was said to have been a doctor, but the details are unclear. Masayoshi studied Confucianism under Okuda Mototsugu, and was listed as a Confucian scholar in the Naniwa Goyoroku, published in 1775 when he was 21 years old. However, his activities as a Confucian scholar ended around this time, and he gradually became known for his waka and Japanese classics. He started out with waka classifications such as Senshu Burui and Zoho Waka Myoda Burui, and eventually moved on to the Kokin Wakashu Hingen, a colloquial translation of the Kokin Wakashu. This series of works culminated in Hyakunin Isshu Itsukuwa (1833), which was published posthumously and widely enjoyed. Masayoshi's talents were best displayed in collecting and editing literary materials, rather than immersing himself in the interpretation of waka and classics. Gunsho Ichiran, which represents the Edo period in terms of both quantity and quality as a bibliographic commentary on Japanese books, received overwhelming acclaim and went through many reprints, while Zoku Isho Nihonden and Jibutsu Hakusai have been handed down in their original manuscript form, but the sheer scale of their works and the extensive research into materials make them worthy of being called the works of Masayoshi's lifetime. He is said to have also excelled in waka poetry, but there are few of his works. He had frequent acquaintances with Kamigata literary figures, and his relationship with Kimura Kenkado and the Kagawa Kageki school is noteworthy. It is regrettable that as a philologist he was limited to general knowledge, but his work will be of great benefit to future generations. <References> Suga Soji, "Ozaki Masayoshi Nenpu" (Aoyama Gobun, No. 12), and Gunsho Ichiran Kenkyu.

(Keichi Kubota)

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Japanese:

没年：文政10.10.3(1827.11.21)
生年：宝暦5(1755)
江戸中・後期の国学者。字有魚。通称春蔵(俊蔵)。号は蘿月,博古知今堂,華陽。大坂の人。父は医師であったというが伝未詳。雅嘉は奥田元継に儒学を学び,21歳の安永4(1775)年に刊行された『浪華郷友録』には儒家として登載。ただし儒者としての活動はこのころまでで,和歌国学をもって次第に名を現すに至る。『千首部類』や『増補和歌明題部類』のような和歌の部類から入り,やがて古今和歌集の俗語訳『古今和歌集鄙言』へと進み,この系列の仕事が没後刊行されて大いに行われた『百人一首一夕話』(1833)に結実することになる。雅嘉の本領は,和歌や古典の解釈に沈潜するよりも文献資料を収集し編集する方に最もよく発揮された。和書の書誌解題として質量ともに江戸時代を代表する『群書一覧』は圧倒的な評価を受け,版を重ねたし,『続異称日本伝』や『事物博採』は,写本のまま伝わるが,規模の大きさと資料の博捜とで,雅嘉一代の著述と称するに足る。和歌にも優れていたといわれるが作品は少ない。上方の文人との交遊は繁く,木村蒹葭堂や香川景樹一門との関係は注目される。文献学者として雑学に終始した点は惜しまれるが,後世に裨益する所大である。<参考文献>管宗次「尾崎雅嘉年譜」(『青山語文』12号),同『群書一覧研究』

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