Excerpts from Shin Kokin Wakashu by Nakamura Kyuetsu
- Person
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作者中村久越
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ナカムラキュウエツヒツシンコキンワカシュウショウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Nakamura Kyuetsu (years of birth and death unknown), the noted calligrapher of the Edo Period, was a priest at Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine in Yamashiro Province (Kyoto Pref.), where he studied calligraphy under the Reverend Shokado Shojo (1584-1639). Later, Kyuetsu became one of Shojo’s highest-ranking disciples and enjoyed an active career as a master calligrapher of the Shokado School. In old age, it is said that Kyuetsu was invited to serve the Maeda household, the feudal lords of Kaga Province (Ishikawa Pref.), and died between 1670 and 1680.Randomly selected excerpts from Shin Kokin Wakashu (New Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems) are written in various scattered-script styles on ryoshi paper decorated with minuscule pieces of silver and gold foils, giving off the “gold mist” effect. From the writer’s note at the scroll’s end, we can see that this piece was produced as a decorated exemplar commissioned by a close friend. Featuring deliberately deformed letters a la the Shokado style and other writing characteristics of this school, the exhibit is a fine example of a Shokado master. From the same note, one can learn that Kyuetsu was 70 when writing this calligraphy.
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