Tanzaku by Tokugawa Ieyasu
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作者徳川家康
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- トクガワイエヤスヒツタンザク
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001614-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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- Art
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The first shogun (supreme commander) of the Tokugawa Military Government, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), was the first born son of Matsudaira Hirotada, lord of Okazaki Castle. From the age of 6, the young heir was sent to live as hostage under warlords Oda Nobuhide and Imagawa Yoshimoto, learning from them the art of war. Later in life, leading an army in the Battle of Okehazama, Ieyasu returned to Okazaki, joined forces with Oda Nobunaga, and succeeded in helping to expand the power of the military. After obtaining the emperor’s permission, Ieyasu changed his surname from Matsudaira to Tokugawa (1566). Soon after, Oda Nobunaga was assassinated, and Ieyasu helped Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Nobunaga’s successor) in his bid for national unification. After Hideyoshi’s demise, however, he turned against and defeated General Ishida Mitsunari (commander of Hideyoshi’s army) in the Battle of Sekigahara. In 1603, Ieyasu, victorious, was appointed Seii-Dai-Shogun (lit. “Supreme Commander for Conquering Barbarians”), the title required to establish a military government, which led Ieyasu to open his junta in Edo (today’s Tokyo) in 1603. Merely two years later (1605), he handed over the shogun’s title to his son and heir, Hidetada, and retired to Sumpu (Shizuoka City). Thereafter, he continued to wield political power and attained victory in the two last wars fought against remnants of Hideyoshi’s forces, namely, the Osaka Winter and Summer Campaigns. The Tokugawas wiped out Hideyoshi’s lineage and fortified the foundation of their military government. At age 75, Ieyasu died in 1616.Ieyasu’s authentic hand is lively and free-flowing on the exhibited tanzaku. As a warlord, he obviously was not constrained by aristocratic rules and decorum. However, from the hand copy that Ieyasu made of the Ogura-Shikishi, a square paper on which a poem was quoted from the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, (lit. “One Hundred Poems from One Hundred Poets”; an anthology compiled by Fujiwara-no-Sadaie, also called “Teika”), we know that Shogun Ieyasu was attracted to Teika’s calligraphy. (The Ogura-Shikishi is preserved at the Tokugawa Art Museum.) The tanzaku shows a poem written on paper decorated with a depiction of Mount Fuji and ocean waves (perhaps a scene of Suruga Bay) in gold mud.
Untitled Poem: Such beauty here as I contemplate the day at Suma Bay (Kobe City), blossoms aglow with the setting sun.
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