『松江竹枝』の作者篠田謙治について : その履歴と『山陰新聞』所載の漢詩

Matsue Chikushi (handwritten) is a book of Kanshi (poem written by Chinese characters) about Yukaku (the red-light district) in Matsue City in early Meiji Era. The author Seiken had been unidentified. I found the same poems in San-in Shimbun, the newspaper which was then issued in Matsue City, and identified Seiken as Shinoda Kenji, who was a lower-ranking official transferred to Matsue City. Later he became a comparatively famous Waka (Japanese traditional short poems) poet. I compared the poems appeared in Matsue Chikushi with those in San-in Shimbun, collected Shinoda's other poems and traced a part of his personal history.