Letter by Hozobo Shinkai
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作者豊蔵坊信海
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ホウゾウボウシンカイヒツショジョウ
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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-002229-0000
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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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Hozobo Shinkai (1626-88) was a Buddhist monk serving at Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine. Priest Shinkai practiced calligraphy and brush-and-ink painting under Shokado Shojo (1582-1639), sado (tea ceremony) under Kobori Enshu (1579-1647), and haikai (haiku) under Matsunaga Teitoku (1571-1654). But it was in composing kyoka (humorous poems) that he far surpassed all others. As one of the representative kyoka writers of his time, Shinkai associated with other famous men of letters, including Ogimachi Sanetoyo (1620-1703), Nakanoin Michishige (1630-1710) and Kitamura Kigin (1625-1705).Writing in the Shokado style, Priest Shinkai advises that he is going to send a baby swallow as a gift for the recipient’s children. But instead of using the word “tsubame,” which means swallow(s), he uses the characters denoting “kakitsubata,” which are actually iris-like flowers. The move is quite poetic as the petals of this elegant flower resemble a swallow in flight, and it also denotes the close friendship Shinkai must have had with the recipient, who was perhaps the head priest of Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine. Shinkai writes that the baby swallow is very small but seems ready to fly any time now.
返々少仰扣いたし心事可得御意候へとも一昨日乍早々得御意候一両日別而気分あしく内々御約諾仕候杜若子候之条延引仕候進覧之候為御子候て御下可被成候更々非残意候いまたわかき様ニ候へとも三位殿へも一傳申入たく候飛たかり候条先々とらせ候かしく近日御躍ニ候御用察無之様ニ承候左様ニ候哉少御催候者可被仰聞候相応之御用ニ達申度候恐々謹言六月十九日（花押）
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