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赤壁賦 

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制作年 AD17
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セキヘキノフ
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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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Duli Xingyi (Jp. Dokuryu Shoeki, 1596-1672) was an Obaku-school priest and a physician of Chinese medicine and Confucianism who lived toward the end of the Ming Dynasty in China. During the years of political turmoil in China, Duli Xingyi traveled widely and came to Nagasaki, Japan in 1653 when he was 53. He went to study under Ingen Ryuki (Ch. Yinyuan Longqi; 1592-1673), who emigrated to Japan in the following year and took a tonsure. He accompanied Ingen Ryuki on his master’s trip to Edo to visit the government, and responding to the request made by the Minister Matsudaira Nobutsuna, he resided at the Heirinji in Musashi (Saitama Pref.), but returned to Nagasaki shortly after to concentrate on his medical practice. Dokuryu Shoeki (Ch. Duli Xingyi) was a reputed monk of the Obaku School but was also renowned for his mastery of prose and poetry composition, calligraphy and Indian ink painting. Seal engraving in Japan is said to have been revolutionized by Duli Xingyi. His calligraphy cast great influence on later generations, especially through his disciple Kogentai. Kitajima Setsuzan (1613-1697), the pioneer of Chinese-style calligraphy in Japan, who also learned the art from Duli Xingyi (Dokuryu Shoeki).The exhibited calligraphy is an excerpt from the Red Cliff Ode (Ch. Chibifu, Jp. Sekihekifu or Sekiheki-no-Fu) written by Su Shi (Jp. So Touba or So Shoku), a Northern Song poet when he was visiting the red cliff of the Yangtze River in 1082. (‘Fu’ is rhymed poetry which originated in Han Dynasty China.) The Red Cliff Ode was often used by students of calligraphy. The ryoshi used is heavy paper with a grid pattern (nunome) decorated with underpaintings of gold and silver powders mixed with glue. It was produced as an ornament for nobility, created in 1671 when Duli was 76-years-old, the year before his demise. Traces of a quivering hand may be explained by this master’s advanced age.

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