Hokuzan Yamamoto

Background

Yamamoto Hokuzan was born in 1752 in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

Refusing any official position, Yamamoto Hokuzan created a school in his home, where he had collected a large number of books. He studied Chinese classics on the basis of Kokyo (Confucian classic on filial piety) and modeled his writings after the poets of Tang Dynasty in China. A poet, he wrote an essay on the poems of Yuan Hongdao (1568 - 1610), a Chinese anti-conformist who used vernacular language. Among his works is Kokyo Shusetsu (Commentary on Kokyo).

Achievements

• Yamamoto Hokuzan made great efforts to improve the study of the classics, and later founded Chikuteiginsha, a society of poets.

Personality

Yamamoto Hokuzan was a man of indomitable spirit and was averse to taking a subordinate position.

Connections

disciple:

Kansai Ichikawa