Tachibana Akemi
Tachibana Akemi (Japanese橘 曙 覧; well Tachibana Akemi no; * 1812 in Ishiba -machi, Echizen province (now Tsukumo, Fukui, Fukui Prefecture ), † October 13, 1868 in Fukui ) was a Japanese Kokugaku scholar and waka poet.
Name
His original family name was Shōgen (正 玄). His first name was in its infancy ( yōmyō ) Gosaburō was (五 三郎) and his real name as adults Shigetoki (茂 时), later Naokoto (尚 事). In 1844, he changed his family name to Tachibana and 1854, his first name to Akemi.
Occasionally he is also under the name Akemi Ide (井 出 曙 覧) out.
As Kokugaku -author he used the pseudonyms Koganenoya (黄金 舎) and Shinobunoya (志 浓 夫 乃 舎). Another pseudonym was Reiin (霊 隠).
Life and work
Tachibana was the son of a paper merchant Shōgen Gorōuemon (正 玄 五郎 右卫门) and his wife Yamamoto Tsuruko in the castle town of Fukui, Ishiba -machi, born. When he was two years old his mother died and his father when he was 15. Then he went to the Nichiren Buddhist Temple Myōdai -ji in Nishidaidō, Minami- Echizen, where he studied Buddhism under a priest. At 18 he went to Kyoto where he attended the private school of Kodama Kizan, but returned after a few months back in his homeland. In 1833 he married Naoko. In 1844 he became a pupil of Kokugaku scholars Tanaka Ōhide Takayama.
After he handed over the family business in 1839 to his half-brother handed, followed in 1846 the entire family fortune and he began a life as a hermit - only on the mountain Asuwa and from 1848 in Mitsuhashi (now 2 -chome, Terute, Fukui ). Here he attracted the attention of his sovereign ( daimyo ) Matsudaira Shungaku and its Advisor Nakane Yukie, who offered him a job in the Castle, which he refused, whereby he was, however, supported financially.
Tachibana was one of the group of poets who sought to renew the traditional waka poetry in the 19th century. Politically, he was a supporter of the Empire and was in opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate. He died a few months after the restoration of Imperial rule. His grave is located in the temple Daiansen -ji (大安 禅寺) in Tanotani -chō, Fukui.
Kashu With Shinobunoya (志 浓 夫 乃 舎 家 集) appeared as early as 1878 a collection of poems. A complete edition of his works published Ide Kinji with Tachibana Akemi Zenshu (橘 曙 覧 全集) 1903.