Letter by Takuan Soho
- Person
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作者沢庵宗彭
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- タクアンソウホウヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000826-0000
- 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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Takuan Soho (1573-1645) was a Rinzai Sect Zen priest who hailed from Izushi, Tajima Province (today’s Hyogo Prefecture). He took the tonsure in his hometown and later went to train under Bishop Shunoku Soen (1529-1611) of Daitokuji Temple. He then became a disciple of Itto shoteki (1539-1612) and succeeded him to become the 153rd bishop of Daitokuji. In 1627, Takuan Soho became entangled in a political conflict between the imperial and military rulers concerning Emperor Gomizuno-o’s edict on the honorable purple robe. Consequently, Soho was exiled to Kaminoyama in Dewa Province (today’s Yamagata Prefecture) in northern Japan. He was pardoned later and allowed to return to Edo (today’s Tokyo). Thereafter, the third Shogun (Generalissimo) of the military government, Tokugawa Iemitsu, became a devoted Buddhist and established Tokaiji Temple in Shinagawa, Edo. Soho died at age 73 in 1645. Confidant of Emperor Gomizuno-o (1596-1680) and Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-51), the Reverend Soho was also a man of elegant taste, thoroughly trained in haiku composition and sado (chado) tea ceremony. In this letter, Soho writes that he and Gyokushitsu Sohaku (1572-1641) looked at a painting by Kanzan (lit. “cold mountain”; a favorite eccentric in Chinese painting: Ch. Hanshan) to identify the author of the accompanying poem. He comments that due to the lack of seal and signature, they were unable to identify the writer. At the end, Soho writes that he will visit the letter’s recipient on February 11 to pay a New Year’s courtesy call and that he looks forward to the reunion.
尚々期面之時候也寒山之賛筆者難知候印もなく名之字も不見候玉室同席に候て御覧候しれ候間敷よし被仰候十一日大坂御下向時分上洛候不図以参年頭之祝儀可申候也恐々不盡正十五宗彭（花押）
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