Letter by Satomura Genchu
- Person
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作者里村玄仲
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- サトムラゲンチュウヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
The second son of the famous Satomura Joha (1524-1602), Satomura Genchu (1578-1638) became a renga (linked verse) poet of the early Edo Period, inheriting his father’s pseudonym Rinsaiko but sometimes going by the name of Sho-oh. Later, the Tokugawa military government hired him as a renga master, and with his service beginning in 1625, he alternated with Satomura Shotaku (1574-1636) as the master of ceremonies of renga parties held at Edo Castle.This letter is a reply to a disciple, Ninomiya Kyudayu, about a renga poem Genchu edited. While Genchu followed the Teika Style for writing poems on tanzaku (narrow paper strips) and kaishi paper, he wrote this letter in the Jimyo-In Style, an informal writing style that had been adopted by the nobility. This a good example of how, throughout various eras, one can often see different calligraphic styles adopted for informal, private writing, as opposed to official or formal writing.
御両句忝致拝見候中にも海ハらもひとつ光に月出て殊勝ニなほし候間相定之申候右之趣御披露所仰候かしく 八月廿八日玄仲二宮久太夫殿
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