Letter by Yodoya Koan
- Person
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作者淀屋个庵
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ヨドヤコアンヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001768-0000
- 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）
- URL
- Classification
- Art
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- Handwriting Font Plant Rectangle Tree
Yodoya Koan (1577-1643) lived during the Edo Period as a well-known renga poet and tea master. He inherited his father’s lumber business and went on to contribute greatly to the development of the mercantile city of Osaka. While a successful businessman, Koan devoted himself to artistic pursuits, befriending contemporary intellectuals like Ishikawa Jozan (1583-1672), Kobori Enshu (1579-1647), Shokado Shojo (1584-1639) and Takuan Soho (1573-1645). The person identified as “Yukan” in the letter was the tea-loving military general Matsui Yukan, who served generals Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Azuchi-Momoyama Period. He was known for his mastery of the art of tea. Koan compliments Yukan on the refined tea party held at the latter’s mansion and praises the majestic flower vase named “Old Fox” that he saw there, using the humorous analogy of a monster to describe the vase’s appearance.
友閑老にて一昨日御茶候て花生遣申候ニ付一覧申候ふる狐ト申由さて／＼ばけ物にて御さ候見事候也あなかしこ卯月廿一日个庵谷小□
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