著者
横塚 啓之
出版者
日本科学史学会
雑誌
科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.43, no.232, pp.204-210, 2004 (Released:2021-08-12)

TAKEBE Katahiro (1664-1739) was a famous mathematician in the Edo period in Japan and was an outstanding pupil of SEKI Takakazu (?-1708) who was an authority on Japanese traditional mathematics. The Enri Kohai-jutsu has been thought to be a book by TAKEBE. One of the manuscripts is preserved in the Hayashi collection of Tohoku University's library (call number : Hayashi 911) and there is another manuscript in the Boso sugaku collection of Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba (call number : Boso sugaku-collection No. 178). Differences can be found between them. They are especially different in the second half.
著者
横塚 啓之
出版者
日本科学史学会
雑誌
科学史研究 (ISSN:21887535)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.42, no.228, pp.207-212, 2003 (Released:2021-08-12)

The Takuma School is one of the schools of Japanese traditional mathematics in the Kansai district. Toshikiyo KAMATA (1678-1747) is the head of the third generation of the Takuma School. The Takuma-ryu Enri preserved in the library of the University of Tokyo consists of five volumes and the first two volumes have been thought to be KAMATA'S works. The Takuma-ryu Enri vol. 1 by Toshikiyo KAMATA is especially famous for the calculation of pi. The Takuma-ryu Enri Hijutsu is in the same library and one theory holds that its author is Toshikiyo KAMATA too. The Kohai-mitsujutsu Kigen preserved in the Ogura collection of Waseda University's library is composed of two volumes. The first volume is a variant text of the Takuma-ryu Enri Hijutsu and the second is an alternate version of the Takuma-ryu Enri vol. 2. At the end of the Kohai-mitsujutsu Kigen vol. 2 the description "Yoshikazu MATSUOKA respectfully has written this from 1792 to 1804 " can be found. Yoshikazu MATSUOKA (1737-?) is the head of the fifth generation of the Takuma School. By this fact and other reasons it is probable that the author of the Takuma-ryu Enri vol. 2 and the Takuma-ryu Enri Hijutsu is not Toshikiyo KAMATA but Yoshikazu MATSUOKA.