Inamura Sampaku

Halma dictionary

Inamura Sampaku ( Japanese 稲 村 三 伯 ; born 1758 in Tottori , Inaba Province (now Tottori Prefecture ); died February 9, 1811 ) was a Japanese Rangaku scholar and translator.

life and work

Inamura Sampaku was born as the third son of the city doctor Matsui Josui (松井 如水). In 1770 he was the doctor of the Tottri clan, Inamura Sankyō (稲 村 三 杏), adopted. From 1771 he attended the school Santokukan (三 徳 館) of the clan. From 1776 he studied medicine and Confucianism with Kamei Minami (亀 井 南 冥; 1773-1814) in Fukuoka and then went to Nagasaki to study Dutch medicine. In 1781 he succeeded the clan doctor after the death of Sankyō, but continued his medical training in Kyoto.

Reading the "Rangaku Kaitei" (蘭 学 階梯), written by Ōtsuki Gentaku , brought Inamura into contact with Dutch studies. and went to Edo in 1792 to work in a clan residence. He became a pupil of Genzawa to study Dutch. 1796 completed and published the first Dutch-Japanese dictionary, "Haruma wage", in collaboration with the Nagasaki interpreter Ishii Tsuneemon (石井 恒 右衛門; 1743–?), The surgeon Katsurakawa Hoshu (桂 川 甫 周; 1751–1809), the linguists Udagawa Genzui (宇田 川 玄 随; 1755–1797) and Udagawa Genshin (宇田 川 玄 眞; 1769–1834) and a.

After three years (1806) he went to Kyoto to open a Dutch school. So he created a basis for Dutch studies in Osaka and Kyōto.

Remarks

1. ↑ “Haruma wage” (ハ ル マ 和解) is made up of “Haruma” for the author François Halma. who wrote the “Woordenboek der Nederduitsche en Fransche taalen” in 1709 with 64035 keywords, and “wage” (和解) for “translation into Japanese”.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Inamura Sampaku . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 597.
• M. Sugimoto and DL Swain: Science & Culture in Traditional Japan . Tuttle, 1978. ISBN 0-8048-1614-X .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Inamura is the family name, Sampaku the first name.