Letter by Kanamori Sowa
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作者金森宗和
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- カナモリソウワヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-000160-0000
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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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Kanamori Sowa (1584-1656) was a tea connoisseur of the early Edo Period. He was the first-born son ofKanamori Arishige (1558-1615), the Lord of Takayama Castle in Hida (today’s Nagano Prefecture), but was disinherited by his father in 1614, when he was 31 years old. As a result, he left his father and moved to Kyoto to live with his mother. There, he visited Bishop Join Denso of Daitokuji Temple for Zen training and eventually took the tonsure, adopting the Buddhist name of Sowa. His training in sado later blossomed, resulting in the establishment of the Sowa School, which offered a new artistic expression and appreciation of the art of tea. His friends included tea celebrities of the era, such as Konoe Nobuhiro (1599-1649), Ichijo Akiyoshi (1605-72), Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) and Katagiri Sekishu (1605-73). The Sowa School was known for grace and elegance and dubbed “princess-like Sowa,” thus attracting many followers among the aristocracy.This letter was addressed to Kohitsu Ryosa (1572-1662), whose business was appreciation of ancient calligraphic works. Ryosa had sent Sowa a box of hikita-zushi (lit. Hikita-style sushi), a local delicacy in Ryosa’s hometown of Ohmi, as a mid-summer gift. This letter, therefore, is Sowa’s thank-you note for the sushi. The sober appearance of the hand and dry tone of the letter suggest that it was written in Sowa’s old age.
尚々名物一おけ忝存候我等事方々事かれこれめしつかひ候為盆之為御祝儀疋田いそかしかり候事鮓一おけ被下候忝存候御推量なさるへく候則可致賞翫候其以来不能面上御ゆかしく存候何れ以貴面心事可申上候さても／＼あつき事ニ御さ候恐惶謹言七月十四日（花押）金森古筆了佐様宗和 貴報
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