Letter by Tachibanaya Sogen
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作者橘屋宗玄
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- タチバナヤソウゲンヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001887-0000
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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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- Handwriting Font Rectangle Tints and shades Monochrome
Tachibanaya Sogen (years of birth and death unknown) was a townsman who lived during the early Edo Period. He was known to have studied chanoyu (also sado, tea ceremony), under Governor Kobori Enshu (1579-1647), and when Enshu was not home, it was Sogen who was entrusted with the safekeeping of his master’s tea room. It is said that the “Tanemura Katatsuki” (a treasured Chinese-style caddy that the celebrated painter Kano Tanyu (1602-74) lost during the Great Fire of Meiryaku in 1657) was among the possessions of Tachibanaya Sogen, but not much is known about this man’s life.Sogen addressed this letter to Suminokura Soan (1571-1631), who had asked him to authenticate a tea scoop (chashaku) claimed to have been made by Enshu. With confidence, Sogen assures Soan that it was indeed made by his teacher, a claim only someone like him could make being his master’s confidant. The exhibited brushwork is valuable as Sogen’s only handwritten letter and also for showing his strong interest in tea utensils.
如仰其後久不得御意御遠々鋪存候然者宗甫公之茶杓みせに被下候筒ともニ正真と相見之申候則返進仕候心事期面上候恐惶頓首極月十八日 宗玄（花押）角与一様貴報橘宗玄
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