Ido Reizan

Ido Reizan (井土霊山) (1859-1935) was a journalist, writer, poet, and liberal activist. He was involved in Freedom and People's Rights Movement (自由民権運動, jiyu minken undo), which appears to have forced him into a nomadic lifestyle. He was born Wada Tsuneshige into a family of samurai in Sōma Nakamura han and later married into the Idos, who were an Azabu-stationed samurai family. Reizan is his pseudonym. His wife was Ido Sumi. He graduated from Sendai Teaching College, which in the Meiji period became the Faculty of Education of Tohoku University. Reizan worked as a journalist and an editor-in-chief at various newspapers including Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, Sanyo Shimbun, and Tokyo Yokohama Shimbun. He was a prolific writer who wrote and edited 27 books, the subjects of which ranged from criminal law to Chinese poetry.

External links

• 11 of Reizan's works are viewable at Digital Library from the Meiji Era.
• The website of Reizan's great-grandchild
• Reizan's Chinese poem that appeared in Taiwan Times

Sources

• Wakamatsu, Jotaro. 2002. Reizan - Ido Tsuneshige. Fukushima-Jiyujin, vol. 17. (Reprinted in The Proceedings of Fukushima Jiyu Minken Daigaku Soma Taikai. pp. 49-61.)
• 1992. Kyodo yukari no sakkatachi. Kyoiku Fukushima, vol. 0166. p. 48.