Tokugawa Munetake
Tokugawa Munetake ( Japanese 田 安 宗 武 , also: Tayasu Munetake ; * 1715 ; † 1771 ) was a Japanese samurai , waka poet and kokugaku scholar.
Tokugawa was a son of the Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune and the first head of the Tayasu branch of the Tokugawa family. He was a follower and scholar of the traditional Kokugaku (National School) and dealt with the oldest Japanese poetry collection Man'yōshū in the wake of Kamo no Mabuchi . He wrote waka poems himself in the traditional style and was considered an important promoter of literature. One of his sons was the politician and reformer Matsudaira Sadanobu .
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- Haruo Shirane, "Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900" , Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 9780231109918 , pp. 925-26
- Eiko Ikegami: "Bonds of civility: aesthetic networks and the political origins of Japanese culture" , new edition Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521601153 , p. 185
- Janine Beichman: Masaoka Shiki: his life and works , Cheng & Tsui, 2002, ISBN 9780887273643 , p. 151
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tokugawa, Munetake |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 田 安宗武 (Japanese); Tayasu, Munetake |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1715 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1771 |