The Red Cliff Ode Poem Scroll by Konoe Iehiro
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作者近衛家煕
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制作年 AD18
- Title
- コノエイエヒロヒツセキヘキノフ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001260-0000
- 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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Konoe Iehiro (1667-1736), a noble who lived toward the middle of the Edo Period, was born to the Regent Konoe Motohiro (1648-1722) and Imperial Princess Tsuneko, the daughter of Emperor GoMizuno-o. His career advanced rapidly to Regent, then Senior Regent, and finally reached the highest bureaucratic post of Prime Minister at age 44. Iehiro retired into Buddhism at age 59 and adopted the religious name Shinkaku and an artistic pen name, Yoraku-In. The Konoe family are descendants of the ancient Fujiwaras and the head of the five families that conventionally held regent and senior regent posts. In calligraphy, the Konoe family originated the Konoe School, also called the Sanmyaku-In School, and produced generations of outstanding calligraphers, including Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614), widely respected as one of the “Three Brushes of the Kanei Era,” Nobuhiro (1599-1649), Hisatsugu (1622-1653) and Motohiro. Under his father Motohiro’s influence, Iehiro was attracted to classical masterpieces of the Heian Period and devoted himself to the collection and trace-copy reproduction of purely Japanese-style brushworks of the ancient court. Despite the popularity of brushwork styles with Chinese influence as well as the Oie School (alias Shoren-In School or Son-en School), Iehiro practiced the classical Japanese style, teaching himself with the treasures that had accumulated in the Konoe household. He contributed to the revival of the ancient style and was respected as the originator of the Yoraku-In School.The exhibit is a copy of a verse from the Red Cliff Ode (Ch: Chibifu, Jp.:Sekihekifu) composed by So Touba (Ch: Su Sh, Jp: So Shoku, 1037-1101) of the Northern Sung Dynasty in 1082. While the Oie School and Chinese-style calligraphy were at the height of popularity, Iehiro aspired to revitalize the ancient Japanese style, following in the footsteps of Hon-ami Koetsu and Karasumaru Mitsuhiro of the early Edo Period, studying on his own with ancient exemplars and trace copies of original works. In the writer’s note at the back, Iehiro wrote that he tried a new brush brought over from Fujian, China. It was made of fur from a deep-purple hare. As this work is signed Yoraku-In, it was written toward Iehiro’s last years, after age 59. The reigning tranquility is characteristic of Iehiro’s style. The cursive script blends in a most refined manner with the dyed and mica-scattered paper, creating beauty beyond description. Perhaps it was specially tailored upon commission by a noble.
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