Background
Ikuta Man was born in 1801. He was the son of Nobukatsu Ikuta, a retainer of Tatebayashi Clan (Gumma Prefecture).
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Ikuta Man
Edit Profile生田 萬
also known as
Kuniniae
Education
Ikuta Man studied Confucian lore at his clan school and then turned his attention to Japanese classics and was so deeply influenced by the works of Mabuchi Kamo and Norinaga Moto-ori that he began advocating anti-Buddhism. Later became a pupil of Atsutane Hirata.
Career
After completing his studies and when he returned home he was distressed to find the condition of his people to be bad and he peti- t.ioned his clan lord seeking redress. The clan lord was displeased with this and banished him. For a few years he wandered about with his family living a life of poverty. After he was pardoned and allowed to return to his village he discovered that all his property had been confiscated and his status as a samurai gone. Undaunted by this, he founded a private school in the neighborhood and taught young people. Later was invited by Higuchi, shrine-priest of Kashi-wazaki, Niigata Prefecture, to teach the classics at Sakuraen, a private school (1836). Shortly after his arrival there a great famine hit the area and many people died. He again petitioned the lord for redress but in vain. Determined to seek redress he formed a band of villagers and attacked Okubo-Jinya, the Governor’s office at Kashiwazaki, and was taken prisoner. In jail he committed suicide. Among his works are Nichibunden Hydron and Daichudojin Manko.
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Connections
Ikuta Man married the daughter of Tsumori Katori, also a member of his clan (1827).
