Letter by Satomura Genchin
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作者里村玄陳
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- サトムラゲンチンヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-002280-0000
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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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The renga poet of the early Edo Period Satomura Genchin (1591-1665) was the son of Satomura Genjo, the originator of the North Satomura family, and was the grandson of the celebrated renga poet, Satomura Joha. His mother was the daughter of Satomura Shoshitsu, the founder of another family branch, the South Satomura family. Thus, Genchin fully inherited the Satomura profession of renga composition and became an achieved poet, and later the emperor granted him the rank of Hogen (the most revered artist). The identity of the addressee, Sohaku, cannot be known immediately, but Genchin invites him to a tea party being put on by Konoe Nobuhiro (1599-1649). Genchin notes Kanamori Sowa (1584-1656) is also coming along to the tea party and, in the postscript, then adds that the Reverend Ishin Suden (1569-1633) is arriving for a visit, making him pretty occupied at the moment. From these latter two comments and the facts that Suden died at age 65 in 1633 and that Sowa had reached the age fit to be called “Elderly Sowa” by the time of this writing, this letter was perhaps written in 1631 or 32, when Genchin was 41 or 42, Nobuhiro, 33 or 34, and Sowa, 48 or 49. Genchin here exhibits typical Teika-style calligraphy. Since ancient times, renga poets followed the Teika School, and this letter proves Genchin’s mastery of the traditional style.
尚々今日も南禅寺伝長老御出故取紛候仍参上不申上候以上一書令啓上候仍明後十六日之ひる陽明様御成に候供候然者貴老御相伴ニと被仰出候於御透者御出奉待候定而陽明様よりも可被仰と存候金宗和老へも御出候へと申越間御同道可忝候猶期貴面時候恐惶謹言五月十四日玄陳（花押）不厭斎宗白様人々御中玄陳
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