Segment of Poems Hand-copied by Yamazaki Sokan
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作者山崎宗鑑
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制作年 AD16
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- ヤマザキソウカンヒツシイカカンダンカン
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-000385-0000
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- CC BY Images license
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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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Yamazaki Sokan (?-1539?) was a renga poet of the Muromachi through Sengoku (Warring States) periods. His real name was Shina Yorishige, but he was commonly called Yasaburo. He first served under the 9th Muromachi Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465-89), as secretary-general, but when Yoshihisa passed away, Yamazaki became a monk at age 25 and adopted the Buddhist name of Sokan. Sometime between 1492 and 1501, he built a hut in Yamazaki in Yamashiro, on the outskirts of Kyoto, and adopted the name of the locale as his new surname. In poetry, Sokan associated closely with renga masters Iio Sogi (1421-1502) and Socho (1448-1532) and promoted a new popular style of haikai. The “haikai renga” is said to have paved the way for haiku, composed of only three lines made up of five, seven, and five syllables respectively. This segment contains copies of a Chinese poem and parts of two different Japanese poems and shows a very unique writing style, often called the Sokan School. The Chinese poem is a quotation from Tang Dynasty poet Liyuan. The Japanese poem is a peculiar combination of waka poems written by Priest Shinkan (1203-1276) and Fujiwara Akiuji (1207-1274), both from the Kamakura Period. Since the ryoshi (paper for writing) is seamless, the parts of the different poems were not put together at a later date, but were copied together on purpose. Perhaps this segment was a page in a calligraphic exemplar. The poems are written on rousen, or wax-rubbed paper. Originally crafted in Northern Song Dynasty China, this decorative paper was imported into Japan during the Heian Period and was admired for centuries to come. Rousen was prepared by first placing a piece of paper on a wooden block of carved designs. Then, the maker, applying pressure, rubbed the paper’s surface with a kind of wax until the designs on the wood transferred. Later, the simplified paper-decorating technique of goffering was developed in Japan, in which the designs on wooden blocks were transferred onto paper by rubbing them with hard materials until the shiny patterns showed up. Such paper was also called rousen. The exhibited ryoshi shows embossed designs of a bird known for longevity, the crane, as well as pine trees (also symbols of longevity as they are ever green) and the Chinese Taoist god of longevity, Shoulaoren (Jp. Jurojin), who is accompanied by a black stag.
杜宇呼名語巴江学字流桃のはなさくややよひのみかの原ことはりしるくすめる月かな
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