Rai (clan)
The Rai ( Japanese 頼 氏 Rai-shi ) were a Japanese family of famous scholars and poets who were active in the 18th and 19th centuries.
genealogy
- Shunsui ( 春水 ; 1746–1816), born in Aki , went to Osaka in 1766 and studied there under the Confucianist and poet Katayama Hokkai ( 片 山 北海 ; 1723–1790). It was in 1781 Confucian of Hiroshima han and later at the residence of the Han in Edo operates. He was also a teacher at the Shōhei School ( 昌平 黌 Shōhei-kō ). He is the author of numerous valued historical works: Fushin-shi , Shiyū-shi ( 師 友 志 ), Ittoku-roku , Zaishin-kiji ( 在 津 紀事 ), Zaikō-kiji , Takehara-bunchū , Shunsui-ikō ( 春水 遺稿 ), Gakutō-ben ( 学 統 弁 ), Geibikōgi-den ( 芸 備 孝義 伝 ) and others.
- San'yō (山陽 ; 1780-1832), Shunsui's son, was an important historian. In his two main works, Nihon-gaishi (日本 外史 ) and Nihon-seiki (日本 政 記 ), he campaigned for the restoration of imperial power.
- Mikisaburō ( 三 樹 三郎 ; 1825-1859), San'yō's third son, lived in Kyoto and carried on his father's ideas. Together with Yanagawa Seigan and Umeda Umbin ( 梅田 雲 浜 ; 1815-1859) he campaigned for the restoration of imperial power. From Emperor Kōmei he received the order to win Tokugawa Nariaki of Mito-han for the expulsion of foreigners. However, this became known to the Chancellor of the Shogun, Ii Naosuke , who had him arrested with 30 followers. Mikisaburō was brought to Edo and beheaded.
Remarks
- ↑ This happened as part of the arrests during the Ansei Purge .
literature
- Suzuki, Toshihiko (Ed.): Nihon daihyakka zensho (Denshibukku-han) . Shogakukan, 1996.
- Edmond Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Reprint of the 1910 edition. Tuttle, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .