Shikishi by Konoe Nobuhiro
- Person
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作者近衛信尋
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- コノエノブヒロヒツシキシ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001575-0000
- 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 Black-and-white Style Font
Konoe Nobuhiro (1599-1649), a noble of the early Edo Period, was the fourth son of Emperor Goyozei (1571-1617) from his consort Chuwamon-In Sakiko (1575-1630). Emperor Gomizuno-o (1596-1680) was Nobuhiro’s half brother. On August 27, 1605, the young boy was adopted by his uncle Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614) to become his heir, and it was at the coming-of-age ceremony held on the following day that his name was changed to Nobuhiro. When all this happened, the boy was only 7 years old. Nobuhiro made spectacular career advances: In 1623, the 25-year-old Nobuhiro was appointed the Regent and the head of the Konoe Clan. However, Nobuhiro was more than an ordinary noble. He studied the art of ceremonial tea under the tea master Furuta Oribe (1543-1615). He was also a man of the world. For example, he courted a famous geiki, Yoshino Dayu (1606-1643), in the Shimabara entertainment quarters. Nobuhiro was also a talented painter but showed the greatest talent in brush-and-ink writing, thanks to coaching from his adopted father, Nobutada. Later, one discerns no stylistic difference between these two master calligraphers. The exhibited shikishi (decorated square paper) used brown-dyed ryoshi with a fabric pattern, depicting the popular pine, bamboo and plum motifs in gold mud on which a poem is copied from Shin Kokin Wakashu (New Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems; Vol. 1 “Spring Poems”). The hand, indistinguishable from that of Nobuhiro’s father, is a genuine work of the Konoe School successor, showcasing the school’s aesthetic essence.
Today is the first day of spring (on the calendar). Spring must have also arrived in the faraway land of China. How silly of me to think it has arrived only in Kyoto!
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