Kada no Azumamaro

Kada no Azumamaro, print from 1939

Kada no Azumamaro ( Japanese 荷田春満 ; * February 3, 1669 , † August 8, 1736 ) was a Japanese Shinto philologist (text researcher) and poet.

Kada came from a line of Shinto priests who had served at the Fushimi-inari shrine in Kyoto for centuries . He was taught the art of Waka poetry in his youth and was introduced to the world of Shinto. After serving at the court of Tennō Reigen for three years , he worked in the library of the Shogun in Edo . In Edo from 1699 he also gave lectures on the early Japanese scripts such as Nihon Shoki , Kojiki and Man'yōshū .

In addition to Motoori Norinaga , Kamo no Mabuchi and Hirata Atsutane , he is considered to be the founder of the literary and philosophical school of Kokugaku . In 1828 he asked the shogunate to be allowed to establish a Kokugaku school (Sōgakōkei). His most important student was the Man'yōshū expert Kamo no Mabuchi. His work was continued by his adopted son, Kada no Arimaro .

Web links

Mori Mizue: "Kada no Azumamaro" . In: Encyclopedia of Shinto. Kokugaku-in , April 12, 2006 (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Stuart DB Picken: Historical Dictionary of Shinto . 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7172-4 , pp. 143 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ ^a ^b Heidi Buck-Albulet: Emotion and Aesthetics. The “Ashiwake obune” - a waka poetics by the young Motoori Norinaga in the context of poetry-theoretical discourses in early modern Japan . Harrassowitz, 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-05150-7 , pp. 30–31 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Ekkehard May: Premodern Literature . In: Klaus Kracht, Markus Rüttermann (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Japanologie . Harrassowitz, 2001, ISBN 3-447-04371-7 , pp. 72–73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Peter Nosco: The National Learning Schools . 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. 282 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Kada no Azumamaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	荷田春満 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese philologist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1669
DATE OF DEATH	August 8, 1736

[Picken-1] A ^b Stuart DB Picken: Historical Dictionary of Shinto . 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7172-4 , pp. 143 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[Buck-2] Heidi Buck-Albulet: Emotion and Aesthetics. The “Ashiwake obune” - a waka poetics by the young Motoori Norinaga in the context of poetry-theoretical discourses in early modern Japan . Harrassowitz, 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-05150-7 , pp. 30–31 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Ekkehard May: Premodern Literature . In: Klaus Kracht, Markus Rüttermann (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Japanologie . Harrassowitz, 2001, ISBN 3-447-04371-7 , pp. 72–73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[4] Peter Nosco: The National Learning Schools . 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. 282 ( limited preview in Google Book search).