One Hundred Poems Dedicated to the Sumiyoshi Shrine by Asukai Masachika
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作者飛鳥井雅親
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- アスカイマサチカヒツスミヨシシャホウラクヒャクシュ
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002240-0000
- 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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Asukai Masachika (1417-1490) was a court noble of the Muromachi Period and the first son of Asukai Masayo (1390-1452). The highest official post he assumed was Provisional Major Counselor of the Senior Second Rank. He devoted himself to Buddhism in 1473 and adopted the name “Eiga.” Generations of Asukai families were leaders in traditional football (kemari) and waka poetry composition. Masachika was trained well by his father and soon became a central figure in the literary circles at the palace, training many celebrated poets such as Muromachi shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436-1490), Sanjonishi Sanetaka (1455-1537), Iio Sogi (1421-1502) and others. Also well known as a talented calligrapher, Masachika originated a new style called Asukai School, which was also called the Eiga School. The note at the scroll’s end says that Masachika visited the Sumiyoshi Shrine on April 24, 1479, to fulfill his wish of many years and stayed for three nights at the shrine administrator Kuniaki’s house, where he composed 100 poems. Masachika also wrote the same 100 poems on tanzaku (narrow paper strips), which are currently preserved at Kyoto University. Each of those tanzaku strips has a small hole at the top right corner, proof that they were bundled together by leading a string through them before dedication to the Sumiyoshi Shrine. One can see that the poems on the tanzaku bundle were the originals. Masachika must have clean-copied the same 100 poems and bound them into an album to keep at hand as a certificate of the 100 poems dedicated to the shrine. This way, he could preserve the same poems as Asukai family property. The hard torinoko paper is decorated with cloud-like designs with silver and gold dust, and then covered with fine silver and gold pieces to make a gorgeous ryoshi. The painstaking project is a testimony of strong religious convictions that Masachika had. The carefully moving brushstrokes attest to Masachika’s competence. These hundred poems are not published elsewhere, thus it makes the exhibit all the more valuable. It is an important document in the study of Japanese literature.
立春はるのくるあしたづのねもいつしかにのどかなりけり住よしのはま子日君に千世千たびもちぎれ姫小松たがためならぬ今日の子日に霞をしこめてはるをつゝむと見えてけりかすみのころも袂ゆたかに鴬うぐひすのふるすよりなく初音こそ谷にははるを先しらせけれ若菜つむ人をけふは野べにや待つらむ雪間をわけて生るわかなも
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