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
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001196-0000
- 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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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 discusses a horakuno, or a Noh play dedicated to a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine. In this case, the Noh performance was dedicated to the Tenman Shrine on Mount Koya, which was perhaps the Nyutsu-hime Shrine located in the vicinity of the great temple of Kongo Buji. As the few opening lines were cut off during framing of the original letter, not much can be known about its content. The name “Sakyo” refers to Nakanuma Sakyo-no-suke, Shojo’s older brother by three years. Shojo signed the letter “Takimoto-bo,” the name he went by between 1627 (age 44) and 1637 (age 54), so it was likely written when Shojo was around 50.
随両天野ニ恒例能御座候ニ付弾正ニ被仰付候之様ニと左京申上候へハ即被仰付候ことに内外色々様々御馳走なされ被下候悉皆左京ニ封御懇申事候弾正ハ宮様御能なと被仰付大夫之故外聞ひとしほくれ／＼かたしけなきよし左京中越候猶御拝顔之時可申上候へとも先一書可被下候恐憧頓首滝本坊七月二日普門院様
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