安積艮斎(1791-1861)は、江戸時代後期の儒学者です。名を重信または信といい、艮斎または見山楼と号しました。陸奥国安積郡郡山の神主の家に生まれ、のちに江戸に出て佐藤一斎、次いで林述斎に学び、文化11年(1814)、神田駿河台に塾を開きました。天保7年(1836)、二本松藩丹羽家の藩儒となり、同14年、昌平黌教官に抜擢され佐藤一斎とともに育英の任に当たりました。はじめ、本所番場町妙源寺に葬られましたが、関東大震災後、現在の場所に移転されました。(東京都教育委員会)

Asaka Gonsai (1791-1861) is a Confucian in the late Edo period. His real name is Shigenobu or Shin and his pseudonym is Gonsai or Kenzanro. Born into a family of Shinto priest in Koriyama, Aska District, Mutsu Province, Gonsai came up to Edo studying under Sato Issai and then Hayashi Jussai, and founded a private school in Kanda Surugadai in Bunka 11 (1814). He was appointed to an official Confusion teacher of Niwa clan of Nihonmatsu Domain in Tenpo 7 (1836), and was selected for a teacher of Shoheiko (shogunate school in Kanda Yushia, Edo) in 1843, taking responsibility for education together with Sato Issai. Gonsai was buried at Myogenji Temle in Honjo Banbacho at first, but move here after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. (Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education)