Naofumi Ochiai - Naofumi Ochiai

Poet and Japanese literature scholar. Born on November 22, 1861, to the Ayukai family, a senior retainer of the Date clan in Rikuzen Province (Miyagi Prefecture), his childhood name was Kamejiro. He was known as Sakuranoya and Haginoya. He was adopted by Ochiai Naoaki and changed his name to Naofumi. He studied at the Ise Shrine Academy, where he studied national history and Japanese literature. He moved to Tokyo in 1881 (Meiji 14), and enrolled in the Classics Department of the University of Tokyo the following year, but dropped out in 1883 due to military service. In 1888, he became a Japanese literature instructor at the Koten Kokyusho. In the same year, he published a long poem, "Song of the Filial Daughter, the White Chrysanthemum," in the Journal of the Society for Oriental Studies, which caused a sensation with its romantic epic poem in 7-5 rhythm. In 1892, he presented a theory on the innovation of waka poetry, which presented a new perspective on poetry, in the inaugural issue of the magazine "Kagaku." He edited and published works such as "The Great Japanese Literature Encyclopedia" and "The Fountain of Words," and achieved success as a scholar of Japanese literature and an educator. In 1893, he founded the "Asakasha" association, which nurtured many talented poets, including Yosano Tekkan, Kaneko Kunen, and Onoe Saishu, as a new school of waka poetry. He aimed to improve poetry, tanka, and prose, and demonstrated this in his own works.

The characteristic of his poems is that they change from a style of poetry that expresses the deep feelings of a patriot to an elegant state of historical poetry, and from emotional poetry to a state that is penetrating to the pathos of life, with a style that has a flowing melody. He passed away on December 16, 1903. After his death, he published "Haginoie Ikou" (1904) and "Haginoie Kashu" (1906).

[Takeo Fujioka]

I wonder if I could see the wild cherry blossoms wearing scarlet armor and a sword.

"Complete Collection of Meiji Literature 44: Naofumi Ochiai and Others" (1968, Chikuma Shobo)

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歌人、国文学者。文久(ぶんきゅう)元年11月22日、陸前国（宮城県）伊達(だて)家の重臣鮎貝(あゆかい)家に生まれ、幼名亀次郎。桜舎(さくらのや)、萩之家(はぎのや)と号した。落合直亮(なおあき)の養子となり、名を直文と改めた。伊勢(いせ)神宮教院に学び、国史、国文を修めた。1881年（明治14）上京、翌年東京大学古典科に入学したが、83年兵役のため中退、88年皇典講究所の国文教師となる。この年、長詩『孝女白菊の歌』を『東洋学会雑誌』に発表、七五調のロマン的叙事詩で反響をよぶ。92年、雑誌『歌学』創刊号に新しい歌観を示した和歌革新論を述べた。『日本大文典』『ことばの泉』などの編著があり、国文学者、教育者としても業績を残した。93年「あさ香社」を結成し、新派和歌の結社として与謝野鉄幹(てっかん)、金子薫園(くんえん)、尾上柴舟(おのえさいしゅう)ら多くの俊秀を育成。詩・短歌・文の改良を意図し、実作に示していった。

　歌の特色は、国士的な感慨を詠んだ作風から詠史的優雅な境地となり、主情的なものから人生の哀れに透徹した境地を生み出し、流麗な調べをもつ作風。明治36年12月16日没。没後『萩之家遺稿』（1904）、『萩之家歌集』（1906）がある。

［藤岡武雄］

　緋緘(ひをどし)の鎧(よろひ)をつけて太刀佩(は)きて見ばやとぞ思ふ山桜花

『『明治文学全集44　落合直文他集』（1968・筑摩書房）』

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