Letter by Shokado Shojo
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作者松花堂昭乗
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ショウカドウショウジョウヒツショジョウ
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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-001806-0000
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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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Shokado Shojo (1584-1639) was a Buddhist priest of the Shingon Sect during the Edo Period. He also called himself Seisei-O. After becoming Takimoto-bo Jitsujo’s disciple, Shojo succeeded his master to become head priest of the Takimoto-bo sub-temple. Later, Shojo conceded his post to one of his disciples and retired to the newly-built Shokado sub-temple. His deep virtues and charismatic personality earned him numerous followers and friendships with Confucian scholars, Zen monks and other intellectuals of the age. Notable among them were Konoe Nobutada (1599-1649), Ishikawa Jozan (1583-1672), Kogetsu Sogan (1574-1643), and Takuan Soho (1573-1645). Shojo studied the Oieryu School (lit. “honorable family school,” also Oie School) of Japanese-style wayo calligraphy under Soncho Hosshinno (an imperial prince who resided at a Buddhist temple), but it was the great Kobo Daishi (Priest Kukai) who Shojo truly admired, favoring the Daishi Style. After mastering this style, Shojo perfected an elegant, free-flowing style of brushwork, which was later renowned as the Shokado School, or Takimoto School, of calligraphy. This letter is addressed to the Governor of Inaba (Province), who had paid a courtesy call upon Lord Nagai Naomasa (1587-1668), the administrator of Yodo Castle. Shokado Shojo notes that he also met Naomasa two days earlier and asks to meet the governor himself. Naomasa was a famous warlord with artistic tastes who studied the art of tea under Furuta Oribe. He was closely associated with tea masters Kobori Enshu and Katagiri Sekishu. In the postscript, Shojo apologizes that due to his messenger’s fault, he did not receive the earlier letter that the governor had sent him.
［端裏書］因幡様………………………………………………猶々重々御書被下恭候其書状拙者の御使より請取われらニわたし候内ニ引失申候故拝見不仕候沙汰之限なから今日淀へ為御見舞被成御上無是非候御状二いかやうの洛之間乍御大儀御尤こ奉存候御用被仰下候も不存候若御用之拙者も一昨日御礼二罷越候事も御座候ハ～重而被仰下候ハ～可恭候信濃殿被成御逢御懇二御座候而以上忝存儀ニも其元若御次も御座候ハゝ貴様も連々被懸御目ものゝ由被仰達罷下候淀御隙明御下向之節此の度御立寄被成候事ハ成申ましく候哉其元罷出可得御意候へとも御用も不存候間無其儀候よとや介庵も此先へ被居候間必御立寄奉待存候久不得尊意つゐに今年不罷下奉背本意候寿遂拝顔御礼可申上候恐憧謹言卯廿八日（花押）
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