Rai San'yō

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Rai San'yō

Rai San'yō ( Japanese 頼 山陽 ; * January 21, 1780 ; † October 16, 1832 ) was a Japanese historian and poet.

The emperor loyal and patriotically minded San'yō, son of the historian Rai Shunsui , portrayed in his work Nihon Gaishi ( 日本 „ ," Unofficial History of Japan ") the rise and fall of the Japanese shoguns and their ministers who, in his opinion, illegally hold power usurped in Japan. Nihon Seiki ( 日本 政 記 , "Political History of Japan") is a story of the Japanese Empire and its decline. San'yō was also considered a master of Chinese poetry ( kanshi ).

literature

  • Alleyne Ireland: The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881 . Echo Library, 2007, ISBN 9781406838107 , pp. 20-21
  • Donald Keene: Anthology of Japanese literature, from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century . Grove Press, 1955, ISBN 9780802150585 , p. 30

Web links

Commons : Rai San'yo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 頼 山陽 . In: デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Shogakukan, accessed January 20, 2011 (Japanese).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Rai is the family name, San'yō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Rai, San'yō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 頼 山陽 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese historian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1780
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1832