Keichu

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Memorial stone at his presumed place of birth, south side of the city's central library in Amagasaki

Keichū ( Japanese 契 沖 ; * 1640 in Amagasaki ; † March 4, 1701 ) was a Japanese Buddhist monk and philologist (text researcher).

The son of a samurai ( Rōnin ) of the Amagasaki - han fiefdom pursued a career as a Buddhist priest and eventually became chief priest ( jūshoku ) of the Shingon temple Myōhō-ji in Imazato, Osaka .

At the request of his friend Shimokobe Chōrū he took over after his illness in 1682, his work on a commentary on the poetry anthology Man'yōshū from the 8th century, which the daimyo Tokugawa Mitsukuni had commissioned. With the work Man'yōshū daishōki ( 万 葉 代 匠 記 ), which he presented in 1690, he became an important source of inspiration for the literary and philosophical school of Kokugaku .

literature

  • Linda Woodhead, Paul Fletcher, Hiroko Kawanami, David Smith (Eds.): Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations . Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-203-39849-1 , pp. 135–136 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Conrad D. Totman: Early Modern Japan . University of California Press, 1995, ISBN 0-520-20356-9 , pp. 175 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Anne Commons: Hitomaro: Poet as God . Brill, 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-17461-0 , pp. 185 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Kosaku Yoshino: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological Inquiry . Routledge, 1992, ISBN 0-203-97345-3 , pp. 34 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 契 沖 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved December 19, 2011 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Keichu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 契 沖 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese philologist and Buddhist monk
DATE OF BIRTH 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Amagasaki
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1701