Hirose Tanso

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Stone statue of Hirose Tanso in Hita in Ōita Prefecture
House of the Hirose family in Mameda-machi (Hita), today the "Hirose Museum"

Hirose Tansō ( Japanese 広 瀬 淡 窓 ; * May 22, 1782 in the settlement of Mameda-machi, Hita County, Bungo Province (now part of the city of Hita , Ōita Prefecture , Japan); † November 28, 1856 there) was a neo-Confucian scholar, Educator and writer.

Hirose, who came from a wealthy merchant family, founded the neoconfucian academy Kangien ( 咸宜 園 ) in 1805 . The school was attended by three thousand young men from all over Japan during Hirose's lifetime and by more than four thousand by 1871. Its graduates include Buddhist monks, Confucians, doctors of traditional Chinese and Western European medicine, politicians and administrators, merchants, farmers and samurai.

Hirose published a collection of his poems in 1837, a three-volume edition of his writings appeared under the title Tansō zenshū ( 淡 窓 h ) between 1925 and 1927.

literature

  • Marleen Kassel: Tokugawa Confucian Education: The Kangien Academy of Hirose Tansō (1782-1856) . SUNY Press, 1996, ISBN 0-7914-2807-9 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the Japanese lunar calendar the 11th day of the 4th month in the second year of foreign exchange Tenmei .
  2. ↑ In the Japanese lunar calendar the 1st day of the 11th month in the 3rd year of the motto Ansei .
  3. ↑ 広 瀬 淡 窓 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed November 24, 2011 (Japanese).
  4. ^ Marleen Kassel: Hirose Tansō's School System . In: William Theodore de Bary (Ed.): Sources of East Asian Tradition . Volume Two: The Modern Period. Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-14323-3 , pp. 228–230 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ A b Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature . 2nd Edition. Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-691-00825-6 , pp. 165 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 319 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Hirose is the family name, Tansō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hirose, Tanso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 広 瀬 淡 窓 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese scholar, educator and poet
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Hita
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1856
Place of death Hita