Tanzaku by Den Sute
- Person
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作者田ステ
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- デンステヒツタンザク
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001471-0000
- 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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- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Black Font Art Monochrome photography
Den Sute (1633-1698) was the first daughter of Den Sukeshige who served as county mayor in Kaibara Village, Hikami County, in Tamba Province (Hyogo Prefecture). With the real family name being Tamura, generations of the Den Family had served as county mayors in the Kaibara feudal domain, under the Oda Family Lordship.. From a young age, Sute’s artistic talents were prominent, and at the mere age of 6, she wrote the following poem, astonishing the people around her: “A long series of double lines my wooden clogs make in the morning snow.” Sute soon married, and her husband succeeded to Den Family head when she was 19. The couple moved to Kyoto later and took up classical Japanese studies and waka and haikai composition under Kitamura Kigin. Her husband died in 1674, when Sute was only 41. On the occasion of her husband’s seventh-year memorial service, Sute became Nun Myoyu-Ni (1681) and the following year, went to Kyoto to teach haikai. In 1686, the 54-year-old Sute embraced Rinzai-Sect Buddhism under coaching from High Priest Bankei, whereby changing her name to Nun Teikan, while adopting the pseudonym of “Rei-un.” After erecting Futetsu-An in Himeji in Harima Province (Hyogo Prefecture) in 1692, she headed this Buddhist structure and was much admired until her death at age 66. Perhaps due to her association with scholars of Japanese classical studies like Kitamura Kigin, Sute’s calligraphy shows typical features of classical writing styles. Being written by a woman, the exhibited tanzaku is one of the rarest poem strips extant.
What a sad life awaits the dew resting on the evening glory, now in its fleeting moment of bloom.
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