Tanzaku by Sano Joeki
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作者佐野紹益
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- サノジョウエキヒツタンザク
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001003-0000
- 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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Sano Joeki (1610-91) was a brilliant literary talent of the early Edo Period. He was the son of Hon-ami Koeki, the cousin of Hon-ami Koetsu (1558-1637). When he was later adopted by Sano Joyu, a dye merchant, Joeki later took up the literary pseudonym of “Haiya” (lit. “indigo dyer’s charcoal”). His true given name was Shigetaka, but he went by the common name of SaburoBe. Joeki grew up familiarizing himself with Koetsu’s works. He studied waka writing under Karasumaru Mitsuhiro, Matsunaga Teitoku, and Asukai Masaaki, and was also good at the art of ceremonial tea and kemari football. Joeki was welcomed into the artistic salons of Emperor GoMizuno-o, Hachijono-Miya Prince Toshitada, and other nobility. His book the “Nigiwai-Gusa” describes, in great detail, the artists’ group in Takaga-Mine village, which would later develop into a major artistic community under Koetsu’s initiative. As such, the book is useful in Koetsu-related research. Joeki is also known for another well-known anecdote: He was so infatuated by the high-class courtesan Yoshino Dayu of the Shimabara red-light district in Kyoto that he vied with Regent Konoe Nobuhiro (1599-1649) for patronage over her. (Note: Most courtesans/prostitutes were sold into brothels as a deposit for loans made to their parents, so a large amount of money had to be paid to redeem them. Joeki later married Yoshino. ) These two leaves of tanzaku have been handed down as one set: one poem on the front and another on the back. On the Right side, one can see the notation “When Masatoyo was 9 years of age” next to the line beginning with “The moon’s shadow….” This is a reference to Asukai Masatoyo (1664-1712), the youngest son of Asukai Masaaki (1611-79). We know that Masatoyo wrote the poem below the title “Keeping Cool at the Water’s Edge”, which was composed on the spot at a poetry party held in the summer of 1672. When Masatoyo finished writing on the front of the tanzaku, he handed it to the 63-year-old Joeki to write another one on its back. The result is the poem beginning with “Water seeping through….” on the Left side.
Keeping Cool at the Water’s Edge: The moon’s shadow, cast on the water’s surface, cools us, even without the winds.Being told to write an impromptu poem by the Asukai Family Chamberlain: Water seeping through the rocks of the overflowing pond cools us.
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