安井息軒墓（養源寺）

所在地　文京区千駄木5-38-3　（養源寺）

　　漢学碩匠　安井息軒墓　指定昭和31年（1956）3月3日
　安井息軒は、後に日向飫肥藩（5万1千石）の藩校振徳堂の総裁兼教授となった儒学者安井滄洲の次男として、寛政11年（1799）1月1日飫肥藩清武郷中野（現在の宮崎県清武町大字加納甲3368－1）に諱生まれた。幼名を順作、字を仲平といい、諱を衡、息軒は号の1つである。生家は「安井息軒旧宅」として国指定史跡となっている。
　大阪で篠崎小竹、江戸で昌平黌に入り古賀侗庵、さらに松崎慊堂に師事して考証学を学び、江戸藩邸（現在の千代田区内幸町2丁目）では飫肥藩第一の名君といわれた13代藩主伊藤祐相の侍読を兼ねた。文久2年（1862）塩谷宕陰、芳野金陵とともに昌平黌儒官に登用された。息軒は幼少時から古学派系の父滄洲を師とし、朱子学だけにとらわれず諸説を参考とし、時勢に対する的確な考証に優れ現実政治にも関心が深かった。著書に『海防私議』『論語集説』『毛詩輯疏』『管子纂詁』『左傳輯釋』などがある。明治9年（1876）9月23日土手三番町（現在の千代田区五番町12）の自宅において77歳で死去した。墓碑の篆額「安井息軒先生碑銘」は清国の江蘇省按察使（司法長官）應寶時、撰文は門弟川田甕江、書丹は日下部鳴鶴、鐫刻は谷中の石工廣群鶴である。墓域には後妻槙子、長女須磨子、須磨子の長男小太郎（朴堂）の子健一郎、次男謙助の子千菊の墓石がある。
　平成14年（2002）3月29日　東京都教育委員会
　

　       Tomb of Yaui Sokken Haka
 He was born onJanuary 1,1799 in Nakano,Kiyotake village, Obi domain (today's Kiyotakecho,Miyazaki Pref.),as asecond son for a Confician scholar Yasui Soshu,who was later appointed as a president and professor at SHintokudo School esrablished by the Obi domain (today's Nichinan City;of 51,000 koku).His birthplace was designated as a historic site by the state,under the name of Yasui Sokken's former residence.
 In Osaka, hi learned with Shinozaki Shochiku, and entered an educationa institution under a direct control of shogunate, Shoheiko in Edo,where he was further trained with Koga Do-an and Matuzaki Kodo.In 1862,Sokken was appointed as a tutor for Ito Suketomo,the 13th lord of Obi domani and allegedly the greatest ruler in this domain,in  the lord's residence (located in today's lot of 2,Uchisaiwaicho,Chiyoda ward) in Edo.In 1862,he was apponted as an official Confucian teacher at the Shoheiko school,together with Shinoya Toin and Yoshino Kinryo.Sokken was had as his teacher his own father Soshu in the line of Classic Confuscian Learning,focused on commentaries under Han or Tang dynasties and consulted various doctrines not limited to the school of Zhu Xi,so he was excellent in precise verifications of situations of Confusius' days.He was also deeply interested in actual political situation of his days.His works include Presonal Views on Sea Defense and Collected Doctines on Analects of Confusius.He died at the age of 77 on September 23,1876,in his own house at Dotesaanbancho (today's Gobancho in Chiyoda ward). Epograph in seal script on a tomb stele,stating Epigraph for Dr.Yasui Sokken in a work of Ying Pao-shih,a provincial judge (Judge in Chief) in the Jiangsu Province of Qing China,and the main text was compiled by Sokken's discriple Kawada Oko,a tough copy in red ink on the stone for the stele was made by Kusakabe Meikaku,and engraving by Kou Gunkaku,a mason from Yanaka.
 Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education