漢詩から探る華岡青洲の交友（その1）：青洲の思い人と先生

Seishu Hanaoka’s Friendships Explored Through His Chinese Poetry：Part 1―Seishu’s Beloved and Mentors

要旨

　京都遊学時代の華岡青洲には某先生の門で出会った吉備出身の思い人がいた。青洲作の漢詩で詩題に先生が付けられている人物に志村東嶼，原南陽，谷好井，十河怡怡堂，挽詩の某先生がいる。われわれは志村の門で2人は出会ったのではないかと考えて調査したが，確証を得ることはできなかった。総合的に検討すると青洲は1786-88年に結婚した可能性が高い。漢詩は原南陽と青洲の邂逅があったことを示唆している。また挽詩の某先生は桃谷華洲か榊原青洲かもしれない。

　Seishu Hanaoka, a Japanese pioneer in anesthesiology, wrote over 200 Chinese poetry. As described in his poetry, Seishu had a beloved from Kibi（Okayama）whom he met at a certain mentor’s home while studying in Kyoto. Individuals who are described as mentors in the titles of Seishu’s poems are Tosho Shimura, Nanyo Hara, Yoshii Tani, Taitaido Sogo, and another unnamed mentor whose death was mourned in Seishu’s poetry. We believe that Seishu may have met his beloved at Tosho Shimura’s residence, and we thus investigated Shimura’s friendships and activities in Okayama；however, we were unable to find Seishu’s beloved. Based on this investigation, it appears that Seishu may have married between 1786 and 1788. Although no documents show an encounter between Seishu and Nanyo Hara, Seishu’s Chinese poetry suggests that he met Nanyo Hara during his youth. We speculate that the mentor whose death was mourned in Seishu’s Chinese poetry might have been Kashu Momotani or Seishu Sakakibara.