New Year’s Verse by Kokei Sochin
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作者古渓宗陳
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- コケイソウチンヒツケイタンノゲ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001819-0000
- 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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Kokei Sochin (1532-97) was a priest affiliated with the Daitokuji of the Rinzai sect Buddhism, who came from the military family of Asakura in Echizen (Fukui Pref.). After going up to Kyoto, he became a disciple of Shorei Sokin, the 107th bishop of the Daitokuji, and later in 1573, Emperor Ohgimachi appointed him to be the 117th bishop of the said temple. He later served as the 5th bishop of the Nanshuji Temple in the port city of Sakai. Generalissimo Toyotomi Hideyoshi long embraced the Daitokuji and when he opened the Soken-In in the compounds of this temple in honor of his assassinated master, Lord Oda Nobunaga, Sochin was invited to be the temple’s first bishop. He also officiated as priest at Nobunaga’s funeral. Later he fell victim of a false charge made by Lord Ishida Mitsunari and was exiled to Hakata (in northern Kyushu), but returned to Kyoto after a pardon. After his return to the Daitokuji, he retired to live in a small Buddhist residence, Joraku-An, enjoying the life of chanoyu (tea ceremony) and earned himself a reputation for being a tea connoisseur through friendships with Sen-no-Rikyu, Furuta Oribe and other prominent tea masters. In 1596, Emperor Goyozei bestowed upon Sochin the title of Daiji-Kosho-Zenji but he died at the age of 66 in the following year.The calligraphy depicts a conversation with a disciple with a poem composed by Sochin himself on the morning of the New Year’s Day in 1588. The austere and sharp style, written when Sochin was 57, is somewhat eccentric and yet appealing.
戊子之鶏旦山僧不入室不垂語早辰無粥斉時無飯無羹無酒如此良辰何禿僧免突出云今暁聚光堂上大和尚随例挙旧話端勘験諸人可謂林下盛事矣且道和尚有何事山僧答云不見道不如無事僧免呵々大咲而出去山僧戯題拙偈充試毫云万仞龍門動法雷遺風千万世臨才吾斯氷雪相吾室只有梅香作伴来（印「古渓」）
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- New Year’s Verse by Kokei Sochin
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- 極札 明治41年五月古筆了仲 点字1通 箱
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