Yanagawa Seigan

Yanagawa Seigan

Yanagawa Seigan ( Japanese 梁 川 星 巌 ; * July 10, 1789 , † October 8, 1858 ) was a Japanese Kanshi poet.

In addition to his work as a poet, Seigan was also a well-known Kanshi teacher. Among other things, he taught his cousin Chō Kōran , who was his wife in 1821 at the age of seventeen. The couple led an erratic travel life before settling in Edo in 1832. Here Seigan opened a private school, which enabled both of them to lead a financially secure life. His four master students are Mineta Fūkō , Ōnuma Chinzan , Ono Kozan and Tōyama Unjo . In his later years he also taught the poet Miwada Masako .

In the 1850s, Seigan and Kōran joined a political reform movement in Edo and came into opposition to Bakufu . Seigan escaped arrest only because he suddenly died of cholera in 1858.

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• Margaret Mehl: Private academies of Chinese learning in Meiji Japan: the decline and transformation of the kanguku juku , new edition Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 978-8-79111-403-8 , p. 82.

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