Letter by Fujita Joyin
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作者藤田乗因
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- フジタジョウインヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002003-0000
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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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The son of Fujita Yukan (years of birth and death unknown), Joyin was a calligrapher whose active career was between 1673 and ’81, but the years of his birth and death are not known. Joyin practiced calligraphy under Takimotobo Jojun, successor to the Takimoto School originated by Shokado Shojo. After many years of hard work, Joyin reached mastery and was later hailed as an authentic writer of the school. Most likely, Joyin was named after Jojun, borrowing the character for “Jo” from his master’s name.During one period of his career, Fujita Joyin was engaged in hot debate with the Obaku (Ch. Huangbo) Sect Priest Dokuryu (Dokuryu Shoeki; Ch. Duli Xingyi; 1596-1672) of Manpukuji Temple in Uji over stylistics concerning calligraphy. Deeply attached to the styles of ancient Chinese master calligraphers Wan Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi (the Two Wangs), Priest Dokuryu slighted the brushwork done by the Reverend Kobo Daishi Kukai, after which the Daishi School was patterned. Joyin’s Takimoto School was, so to speak, a spin-off of the Daishi School. In the course of the debate, Joyin presented to Dokuryu a treatise he had written on calligraphic styles. Upon reading it, Dokuryu was embarrassed of his shallow learning and immediately retracted his earlier criticism. This episode is noteworthy as it shows Joyin’s scholarship, as well as dedication to the Takimoto School.“The subdued beauty and calm associated with a spring rain is said to excel the sentiments of autumn. I have something to say about this. It is true that spring is the beginning of everything – new leaves emerge, making everyone happy. Autumn, on the other hand, is a gloomy season with the trees stripped of their leaves. So, I, too, prefer early spring.” Joyin wrote these random thoughts in the letter exhibited here, perhaps at the spur of the moment. While his hand adheres to the Takimoto School, there appear some elements of the ancient Teika-style of calligraphy.
春雨蕭然たる事秋にまさると承候ハいかゝ春ハ草木めてたし／＼ときこえ申候秋ハさなから山林郎當／＼といふ様ニおほえ申候いかゝ／＼かしく 山地勘右様 乗因 回
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