Letter by Fujita Joyin
- Person
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作者藤田乗因
- Date
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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-002004-0000
- 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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- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Font Black-and-white Art Rectangle
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 exhibited letter is addressed to Yamaji Kanuyemon (identity unknown) who had sent Joyin a clean copy of brushwork written in a cursive style, perhaps copying from a Shokado School exemplar. Joyin commends Yamaji’s writing, then goes on to offer some advice – to write one line in one’s own style and the next line in Takimoto style, alternating the styles, so that one can see the difference and quickly learn the specific characteristics of the Takimoto School. With such advice, this letter proves Yamaji Kanuyemon was one of Joyin’s students, and is interesting in the sense that it discusses a practical method of learning calligraphy.
早々申候以上行之清書御認たて珍重ニ候無所残候然者此筆躰ニ而御自作ニみしかき文を一ツ御かきなされて可然存候先一行か二行ツゝ被遊候而 自作ヲ一行書て可被下候 なをし可申候八幡宮を一行又自作一行カヤウニ一行つゝませて被遊尤候筆躰ノヨクウツリ申タメニ候御手紙の被遊様近比珍重存候よく八幡宮ノ体ニウツリ申候以上山地勘右様乗因
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