Letter by Tsumori Tsunekuni
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作者津守経国
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制作年 AD13
- Title
- ツモリツネクニヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-002036-0000
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- CC BY Images license
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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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For generations, the Tsumori family held the position of high priest at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Settsu (today’s Osaka) and, since ancient times, wielded influential power over Settsu by overseeing affairs of the three major shrines in the area. Also, serving as lords guarding Suminoe-no Tsu (a port near Sumiyoshi Shrine), the family called themselves Tsumori (literally, “Guardian of the port”). Tsumori Tsunekuni (1185-1228) was a Shinto priest and poet of the Kamakura Period. Following family tradition, he was appointed provincial governor of Settsu and, in 1220, was appointed the 47th head priest of Sumiyoshi Shrine. Tsunekuni not only excelled in music, such as playing flute and drums, but he was also an achieved poet; twelve of his Japanese waka poems appear in the New Imperially Compiled Poetic Anthology. He died in 1228 at age 44. The two letters shown here have been preserved as shihai-monjo, or writing on waste paper, since the backs of the letters were used by Fujiwara-no-Sadaie (1162-1241) to write his diary, Meigetsuki (Clear Moon Journal), in 1227. Although the exact contents of the letters are not very clear, they both deal with tsuigaki, clay-brick walls, for insinuating mansions of aristocratic households.According to the Meigetsuki, Sadaie composed a poem for a Shinto ritual dance-song in 1211 requested by Tsunekuni. The two gentlemen seemed to have cultivated a friendship when Sadaie was in his 50s and 60s. It is highly likely that Sadaie used the backs of the letters he received from Tsunekuni, recycling a precious resource of the time, paper. Upon perusal of the Meigetsuki using “tsuigaki” as a keyword to examine Sadaie’s doings around 1227, one finds that Sadaie was planning to build a new house in 1216. The construction began with the building of the tsuigaki on September 30 and was completed on November 15, and Sadaie moved into the new house on November 21. These facts indicate that the letters were exchanged between Sadaie and Tsunekuni around this time.
［第一通］中宮三品之義立□心もとなきよし被申候て頻入興忝候歟築垣事于今無沙汰之条竒恠事候為間引□□下向阿芸之由只今斯事男上て日来者已沙汰了歟之由□候處雑掌下向不可説々々々候□三ヶ日内可築立之由可召仰候四帖畏□了目落事不□者書生前文章生貞真と申□者□之所行候此外も猶□依事候歟自筆可書進上之由存候其草木事も其内可進候て會坂生付候哉明旦下向候来月十日可参入候恐惶謹言―――――――――［第二通］来十九日参冷泉殿之次委□令意候歟彼築垣事申付武所下司男候之處于今覚語□候云々不可説候／＼今明之□間可責催候経国恐惶謹言十一月十四日経国
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