Kan Chazan

Kan Chazan ( Japanese 管茶山 , also: Kan Sazan ; born February 29, 1748 in Kawakita, Yasuna-gun, province of Bingo (today: Kawakita, Kannabe -chō, Fukuyama , Hiroshima Prefecture ); † October 3, 1828 ) was a Japanese Kanshi poet and Confucian scholar.

Surname

Chazan was his writer's name. In his childhood his name was ( yōmyō ) Kitarō ( 喜太郎 ), his name after the coming of age ceremony ( gempuku ) was Momosuke ( 百助 ), his real name ( imina ) Tokinori ( 晋帥 ), his azana Reikei ( 礼卿 ) and his nickname Tachū ( 太中 / 太仲 ).

Life

Kan's father was a sake brewer and a wealthy farmer. Kan studied from 1766 to 1770 in Kyōto, then in Osaka with Nawa Rodō the teachings of Confucius and with Wada Yasuzumi Chinese medicine. Then he returned to his hometown, where he founded the Kanshi school Kōyō sekiyō sonsha ( 黄葉夕陽村舎 ), later renjuku ( 廉塾 ), in 1781 . He published the Kanshi collection Kōyō sekiyō sonshashi ( 黄葉夕陽村舎詩 ) and a volume of essays under the title Fude no susabi ( 筆のすさび ).

recognition

His Renjuku Academy and his house were declared a National Special Historic Site ( Tokubetsu Shiseki ) as an ensemble in 1953 , and his grave was declared a Prefectural Historic Site in 1940. In addition, the local history museum of his hometown was named after him ( 菅茶山記念館 , Kan Chazan Kinenkan ).

On February 2, 1999, the asteroid (6846) Kansazan was named after him.

Web links

Kan Chazan Museum website (Japanese)
History Today, Vol 51, Issue 8 - Margaret flour: Local Heroes (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c 菅茶山について . (No longer available online.) Kan Chazan Museum, archived from the original on June 13, 2012 ; Retrieved December 21, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Haruo Shirane (Ed.): Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 . Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-231-10991-1 , pp. 913 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Kan, Chazan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	管茶山 (Japanese); Kan Tokinori (real name); 管晋帥 (real name, Japanese); Kan, Sazan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese poet
DATE OF BIRTH	February 29, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kawakita, Yasuna-gun, Bingo Province (today: Kawakita, Kannabe -chō, Fukuyama , Hiroshima Prefecture ), Japan
DATE OF DEATH	October 3, 1828

[museum-1] 菅茶山について . (No longer available online.) Kan Chazan Museum, archived from the original on June 13, 2012 ; Retrieved December 21, 2011 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[2] Haruo Shirane (Ed.): Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 . Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-231-10991-1 , pp. 913 ( limited preview in Google Book search).