Shikishi Book of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets (Inscription by Konoe Nobutada)
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賛者近衛信尹
- Date
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- サンジュウロクカセンシキシジョウ（コノエノブタダサン）
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 紙本着色
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002028-0000
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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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- Art
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- Rectangle Handwriting Black-and-white Style Font
The portraits of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets were matched with their poems written on 36 shikishi (square pieces of paper) and then pasted together in an orihon, or a long strip of paper folded into a desired size, similar to an accordion (Length: 38.1・Width: 56.3 cm). Although the portraits’ painter is unidentified, the poems were inscribed by none other than Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614). Colorfully dyed shikishi with an under-painting in silver and gold mud was used by Nobutada to write down the poems. As a child, Nobutada acquired a solid foundation in the Shorein-In style calligraphy, to which he later added elements of the Teika style. The free-flowing, powerful and unrestricted hand is characteristic of this noble upbringing. The painting technique dates it to an era somewhat younger than Nobutada’s. Due to the different sizes of the shikishi used for the calligraphy and the portrait, one can assume that someone possessing the poetry shikishi commissioned the portraits and later had matching pairs pasted together into a kasen-e book edition. The portraits were likely drawn by a talented Tosa-school artist of the early Edo Period, loyally following the school’s tradition in structure, line formation and coloring that dates as far back as the Kamakura Period. During the Muromachi, Momoyama and early Edo Periods, members of aristocratic and military classes frequently commissioned shikishi books of matching poems and portraits, by using carefully prepared shikishi paper.
ほのぼのとあかしのうらのあさ霧にしまがくれ行舩をしぞおもふ
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- Shikishi Book of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets (Inscription by Konoe Nobutada)
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Quantity 1帖
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 折帖 金襴裂表紙 四隅飾金具付
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