Letter by Nakanoin Michimura
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作者中院通村
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ナカノインミチムラヒツショウソク
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002241-0000
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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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A court noble of the early Edo Period, Nakanoin Michimura (1588-1653) was born to Middle Counselor Nakanoin Michikatsu and the adopted daughter of Hosokawa Yusai. He later adopted the pesudonymn of “Nochi-no-Jurin-In”. Known as a man of integrity, Michimura was confided in by Emperor Gomizunoo, but unfortunately, he was accused of failing to fulfill his duties as the military government’s emissary, on the occasion of Emperor Gomizunoo’s abdication and Emperor Meisho’s succession to the throne in 1629. Michimura was stripped of his official title and was confined to house arrest in Edo (today’s Tokyo, the seat of the Tokugawa government). Priest Tenkai intervened and helped Michimura win amnesty; whereupon, the latter resumed his former government post and eventually became Minister of the Interior in 1631. Michimura was a master waka composer and published Nochi-no-Jurin-In Poetry Collection. In calligraphy, he was trained in the Sesonji School, but later founded his own, the Nakanoin School, attracting many followers. He also exhibited talent in the evaluation and appreciation of ancient calligraphic works. As for his literary comments, they appear in the Sekido-Bon Kokinshu (Sekido Version “Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems”), while his treatise in artistic appreciation is found in Nakanoin-Michimura Diary and his book Kakumeiki. This letter is likely addressed to a calligrapher, thanking him for the manuscript of many poems, perhaps on tanzaku paper strips. But Michimura is concerned with one poem, which he has edited and is returning to the man, a Shimizudani, a family of professional calligraphers. From the timeframe of Michimura’s career, this letter was perhaps addressed to Shimizudani Saneto (1587-1664), who revived his family’s fame in calligraphy. Saneto, the younger brother of Ano Saneaki (1581-1645), was a master calligrapher of the Koetsu School. In the Kohitsu Ryugi Wake (lit. Genealogy of Ancient Calligraphic Styles), Saneto’s name appears under the Koetsu School. Judged from extant writings, however, Saneto’s style resembles the Nakanoin School more closely.
歌数多申入候処被 染健筆候過分之至存候一首不審之事候重而可申入候御労煩察存候餘者面談之次存候恐々謹言二月九日（花押）清水谷殿（花押）
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