Kamo no Mabuchi

Kamo no Mabuchi (Japanese贺 茂 真 渊; * April 24, 1697, † November 27, 1769 ) was a Japanese waka poet and philologist (Text researchers ).

Kamo was 1733-1736 student of Kada no Azumamaro and then was in the service Tayasu Munetakis, Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune of the Son of. Like his teacher Kada no Azumamaro he is considered one of the founders of the literary and philosophical school of Kokugaku (national studies).

In addition to several essays on Kokugaku ( Bun'ikō, 1762; Kaiko, 1764; Kokuikō, 1765; Shoikō, 1766; Goiko, 1769), he wrote studies of the Man'yōshū ( Man'yōkō, 1765 ) and other works of literary history ( Kanjikō, 1757; Genji monogatari shinshaku, 1758; Nimanabi, 1765 ). He called for a return to the style of Man'yōshū poetry and tried to revive the Choka - style within the Wakadichtung. His most famous student was Motoori Norinaga.

Swell

  • Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 465 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Peter Nosco: The National Learning Schools. In: William Theodore de Bary (ed.): Sources of East Asian Tradition. Volume Two: The Modern Period, Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-14323-3, pp. 287ff. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Literature (Japanese)
  • Literature (18th century)
  • Philologist
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1697
  • Died in 1769
  • Man
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