Letter by Mouri Hidenari
- Person
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作者毛利秀就
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- モウリヒデナリヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002067-0000
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- 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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Mouri Hidenari (1595-1651) was the governor of Choshu in Nagato Province (today’s Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture), who lived during the early Edo Period. As the first son of the famous General Mouri Terumoto, Hidenari was born at Hiroshima Castle in Aki (today’s Hiroshima) and, in 1599, at the age of five, was granted the Chinese character making up the first part of his name, “hide-” (lit. excellent, exceeding others), from the name of Toyotomi Hideyori (1593-1615). When the Battle of Sekigahara erupted in the following year (1600), Terumoto, one of the Five Elders of the Toyotomi regency, was accused of being the Commander-in-Chief of the Western Forces (followers of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyori’s father). When the Toyotomis lost the battle, two-thirds of Terumoto’s estate was confiscated by the victorious Tokugawa government. As an expression of obedience, Terumoto became a Buddhist monk and retired, nominating the 6-year-old Hidenari to head the Mohri family. But it was a nominal position as the father continued to wield power behind the scenes. In July 1608, Hidenari married the daughter of Yuki Hideyasu (1574-1607), who was the second son of Generalissimo Tokugawa Ieyasu (the founder of the Tokugawa military government), and was appointed Lord of Nagato in September of the same year. He was only 14 then. In 1650, Governor of Nagato Hidenari completed the survey and land development in his estates in Suo and Choshu (both in today’s Yamaguchi Prefecture), thus laying down the foundation for local administration.This letter is a thank-you note for the gift of two vats of sake, one white crane (bird) , and one folded sheet of konbu (dried seaweed). Addressed to his father, the script is unsure and untrained and so is considered written when Hidenari was in his teens.
［上段］益修被下御書殊御樽二鶴一こふ一折忝拝領仕候猶口上申含候此［下段］由可預御披露候恐惶謹言藤七郎卯月廿一日秀就（花押）御カミ
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