Toda Mosui

Toda Mosui's grave in the Sensō-ji cemetery

Toda Mosui ( Japanese 戸 田 茂 睡 , actually: Toda Yasumitsu ( 戸 田 恭 光 ); * 1629 ; † 1706 ) was a Japanese samurai , waka poet and kokugaku scholar.

The son of a vassal of Tokugawa Tadanaga dealt, like his contemporaries Shimokobe Chōryū and Keichū, with the study of the collection of poems Man'yōshū and stands next to these at the beginning of the national school Kokugaku . He also emerged as a waka poet. In his later years he became a Shinto monk.

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• Laura Nenzi: "Excursions in identity: travel and the intersection of place, gender, and status in Edo Japan" , University of Hawaii Press, 2008, ISBN 978-082483-117-2 , p. 43
• Inoue Nobutaka: Shinto - Short History , ISBN 978-113438-462-4 , p. 148
• Ai Maeda, James A. Fujii (Eds.): "Text and the city: essays on Japanese modernity" . Duke University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-082233-346-3 , p. 159
• "Acta Orientalia Neerlandica" , Brill Archive, p. 206
• Ewa Machotka: "Visual genesis of Japanese national identity: Hokusai's Hyakunin isshu" , Peter Lang, 2009, ISBN 978-905201-482-1 , p. 29

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Toda is the family name, Mosui the first name.