Seven-Syllable Quatrain by Karasumaru Mitsuhiro
- Person
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作者烏丸光広
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- カラスマルミツヒロヒツシチゴンゼック
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002235-0000
- 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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- Handwriting Rectangle Font Wood Twig
Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (1579-1638) was an aristocratic poet of the early Edo Period and had an active career as a liaison between the imperial court (in Kyoto) and the military government (in Edo). Although he was once banished from the capital due to a sex scandal, he won the trust of the Tokugawa Military Administration and eventually reached the high government post of Provisional Major Counselor of the Senior Second Rank. A man of multiple talents, Mitsuhiro was brilliant in waka and renga composition, calligraphy in writing and painting as well as sado (ceremonial tea). He also practiced Zen Buddhism training under the Zen master Isshi Bunshu (1608-1646). In calligraphy, Mitsuhiro was one of the “Kanei-no-Sampitsu” (Three Brushes of theKanei Era) and left behind many beautiful brushworks. His writing style changed four times in his lifetime. At first, it was developed on the foundation of the Jimyo-In School, popular among the nobility, then it shifted to the Koetsu and Teika and other writing styles, until finally evolving into a unique style that one may as well call the “Mitsuhiro Style,” characterized by the free and dynamic flow of the brush.The exhibit shows the first part of Volume II of Choshu Eiso (Collection of Waka Poems by Fujiwara-no-Toshinari; 1114-1204). It’s not likely that Mitsuhiro copied the entire Volume II, but perhaps just an excerpt from it. The freely flowing brushstrokes toward the end of the handscroll show the Mitsuhiro style at its best, while the overall impression is likened to the Koetsu School, which the writer adopted eagerly. This is definitely a work created when Mitsuhiro was at his artistic zenith. The unobtrusive under-painting shows a pine tree, flowers and grass, rocks, running water and the like, giving the paper a refined look. The work was a decorated exemplar produced on commission by a noble.
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- Seven-Syllable Quatrain by Karasumaru Mitsuhiro
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Quantity 1巻
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Materials 金泥下絵 斐紙（薄様）
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