WakanRoeishu by Kitamuki Unchiku
- Person
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作者北向雲竹
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- キタムキウンチクヒツワカンロウエイシュウショウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002209-0000
- 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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Kitamuki Unchiku (1632-1703) was a famous calligrapher of the early Edo Period who had been trained by Priest Docho of Mt. Koya (the site of a powerful temple). He showed skill in all three different writing forms, namely the regular script (kaisho), semi-cursive script (gyosho) and cursive script (sousho). However, many of Unchiku’s works are rendered in the Daishi School style as he also studied under Fujiki Atsunao (1582-1649), the head administrator of the Kamo Shrine. Paintings of bamboo in black ink were also among Unchiku’s favorite pursuits. On the other hand, he also showed talent in waka and haiku writing and was, in fact, the calligraphy teacher for the haiku master Matsuo Basho (1644-1694).Five Chinese poems (kanshi) and five Japanese poems (waka) from Wakan Roeishu (Anthology of Japanese Chinese Poems for Recitation) alternate in this brushwork. While the Chinese letters follow the mixture of regular and semi-cursive script, thus reducing the rigid appearance of the kaisho script, the Japanese syllables are written with a Jodai-style influence. From the date written at the scroll’s end, November 1701, we know Unchiku was 69 when he wrote this piece. In both Exhibits A and B, one can see Unchiku’s characteristics that are reflected in Basho’s hand.
Oh, spring light! If you know how much I would miss you after your departure, you’d choose my house to stay, on your last journey of the year. Spring may return, but lying sick, I may not see it again. I regret the rapidly passing spring.
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