Shikishi by Waku Hanzaemon
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作者和久半左衛門（是安）
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ワクゼアンヒツシキシ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001749-0000
- 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
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Waku Hanzaemon (1578-1638) was a calligrapher of the early Edo Period. He went by his common name of Hanzaemon, but his real name was Toshihide and his pseudonym Zean. Hanzaemon showed an amazing talent in calligraphy even in his youth, studying the Sanmyaku-In Style (also called Konoe School) under Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614). He began service to Toyotomi Hideyori (1593-1615) at a young age, working as his private secretary, thanks to his mastery of calligraphy, and was treated well. Hanzaemon’s father, Waku Soze, later went to serve General Date Masamune (1567-1636) but was killed during the Summer Campaign at the Osaka Castle in May 1615. Taking pity on the young fatherless Hanzaemon, General Date invited him to live in the Date domain in Sendai. Thereafter, Hanzaemon lived under Lord Date’s patronage and dedicated his life to training numerous local youngsters. The shikishi shows a copy of Priest Jakuzen’s poem from the Senzai Wakashu (Anthology of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years; Vol. IV, “Autumn Poems”) written over miniscule gold foils scattered across the paper. Running across the shikishi’s top is a design made by rubbing it on carved printing blocks with wax, thus creating a glossy motif of a dragon. Hanzaemon’s unrestricted writing style shows Konoe Nobutada’s influence and yet reveals his originality.
I’m awakened by the autumn winds batting against the bush clover. It’s autumn, which means this year is already half gone.
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