was a Japanese

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scholar, historian, and poet. His real name was Kaoru (馨). His pen name was Chikudō (竹堂) or Bōyōshi (茫洋子).

Life

Chikudō was born in Mutsukoku-Tōdagun-Numabemura (now Tajiri in Tōda District, Miyagi prefecture). He studied under

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and Masujima Ran-en. Chikudō entered

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. where he studied and taught Chinese poetry, and served as the house master in Yushima Seidō. He associated with celebrities, including

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, Hagura Kandō,

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and Shinozaki Shōchiku.

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was Chikudō's junior in Yushima Seidō and a friend of his.

Works

Chikudō wrote most of his poems and prose in

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. His interests were very wide: he knew the history of Western countries and used

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, the history of

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and

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as poem themes.

Bibliography

* – biography of

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* – biography of Date Aki(伊達安芸),Lord of Wakuya Domain * – history of the

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* – analysis of Japanese historic persons * * – report on the

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* – history of Western countries

References

* "頼山陽とその時代" ( Rai San'yo and his era) :

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（中村真一郎） published in 1976 * "涌谷町史"(Wakuya-Chōshi) : History of Wakuya town {{DEFAULTSORT:Saito, Chikudo 1815 births 1852 deaths Historians of Japan Writers of the Edo period Japanese Confucianists 19th-century Japanese poets 19th-century Japanese historians