Letter by Kobori Enshu
- Person
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作者小堀遠州
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- コボリエンシュウヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001930-0000
- 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）
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- Art
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- Handwriting Font Line Rectangle Writing
Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) had several names; his real name was Masakazu, but he used the pseudonym Soho for artistic endeavors and also called himself “Koho-An.” He originated the Enshu-style tea ceremony and was admired as one of the three greatest tea masters of Japan, the other two being Sen-no-Rikyu (1522-91) and Furuta Oribe (1543-1615). In 1608, Kobori Masakazu was appointed Lord of Ohmi (today’s Shizuoka Prefecture) and was called Enshu thereafter. (“Enshu” is synonymous with Ohmi Province.) A man of multiple talents, highly successful landscape designer among them, Kobori Enshu patterned his calligraphic style after the orthodox Teika Style (originated by Fujiwara-no-Teika; 1162-1241).The addressee of this letter, “Kutsu of Popular Affairs,” refers to Kutsuki Tanetsuna (1605-60), who was a vassal of the third Shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-51). In 1623, he was appointed to Vice-Director, Ministry of Popular Affairs, and in 1636, became the foreman of the Shogun’s guards. In the same year, he was further promoted with a salary of 10,000 goku (bales of rice). Kobori Enshu, 45 years old at this writing, congratulates Lord Kutsuki on his promotion. The brush work is the epitome of the fluent Enshu Style, reminiscent of the class and elegance of the orthodox Teika Style.
尚々御表の用之御事御座候ハゝ可被仰付候已上一筆令啓御機嫌能被成御座候由乍恐目出度奉存候然者貴公様今度御知行御加増被成御拝領之由承扨も／＼目出度御事不可過之候為御悦致啓上候恐惶謹言小堀遠江守九月十日（花押）朽民部様
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