Sugawara

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Sugawara (菅原) is a Japanese family name, originally created in 781 by Kammu -Tennō for members of the Haji clan.

Bearers of this name were:

In the Nara and Heian times, members of the court nobility, who mostly worked as teachers and poets, less often in political positions, the members of the

whose most important representatives were

during the Edo period - many neo-Confucian scholars:

  • Sugawara Bunta Confucian from Iyo Province , served the daimyo of Matsuyama
  • Sugawara Dōryū (菅原 道 龍; † 1817, 36 years old) scholar of Japanese classical literature from Akita ( Dewa Province ), author of a history of the clan
  • Sugawara Gensei (菅原 元 政; 1623–68). Waka - poet who served the Lord of Hikone , Ii Naotaka . He was also known as Fukakusa no Gensei after becoming a monk in Shōshin-an in the village of Fukakusa at the age of 25 . Poems in: Sōzan Wakashū
  • Sugawara Motomichi (菅原 元 道, * 1833 in Uzen , † May 14, 1898) is generally known by one of his stage names as Hakuryū (白龍; * 1833, † 1898). This landscape painter of the Naga school, who also lived as a mountain basket , also used the names Bonrin , Hakuryū Sanjin , Nihon Inshi and Nikkyō Inshi .
  • Eibun is the better known pseudonym of Sugawara Toshinobu, (菅原 利 信), who worked in the early 19th century.
  • Sugawara Rinsho (1712-35), a descendant of Sugawara no Michizanes, served as a Confucian teacher for the daimyo of Karasuyama and Shimodate . Died of smallpox at the age of 23.
  • Sugawara Tokuan (1581-1628) was called by birth name Gendō (元 同), but was named after his place of birth in the province of Harima with the family name Kamata . The Confucian scholar worked in Kyoto and was a student of Fujiwara Seika . He was murdered by one of his students at the age of 40. He is best known as a bibliophile and is said to have owned over 10,000 books.
  • Sugawara Tōkai (菅原 東海; † 1828, 90 years old) Confucian scholar who instructed in his home in Tokyo, especially the members of the Saeki clan of Aizu .

in modern times: