Letter by Fujita Yukan
- Person
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作者藤田友閑
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- フジタユウカンヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002006-0000
- 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 Rectangle Font Tree Writing
Fujita Yukan (year of birth and death unknown) practiced calligraphy under Shokado Shojo (1584-1639) and later became an achieved Shokado School calligrapher. He was originally from Settsu Province (today’s Osaka) and pursued an active career in the early Edo Period. Interestingly, it was Yukan’s wife who prompted him to learn calligraphy, reminding him of his ugly handwriting. After twenty years of hard work, Yukan mastered the art of brushwork in calligraphy and painting, and earned a reputation as Shojo’s protégé. Yukan was said to have had 1,000 students at one time.This letter is a reply to Watanabe Gorobe, who had advised Yukan that Sotetsu (for whom Watanabe probably served as retainer), Doshu and other family members were well. Yukan’s letter refers to “a bag each of two kinds of medicine” that Doshu had sent him, calling himself “a sick man.” From this, one can assume that Sotetsu and Doshu were doctors, and, from other documents, we know there was a doctor named Sotetsu, who was the son of the court physician Yamawaki Genshin. Yamawaki studied medicine under the famous Manase Gensaku (1549-1631). Therefore, the Sotetsu mentioned in this letter could have been Yamawaki Genshin’s son. It’s likely that Doshu was Sotetsu’s son or brother. The generous and uninhibited flow of the script here is proof of the mastery Yukan achieved in the Shokado School.
猶々及暮候御報不能詳候以上御札畏致拝見候先以其地御無事宗徹道守御息災御一族御堅固之旨珍重不可過之候此方同前某も乍病者無別条送年月候御可心安候宗徹老御伝書忝存候御報急候間御意得頼申候従道守一袋ツゝ二種給候毎事遠路之御志過分存候是又可預御意存候心事期面上之時早々申候恐惶謹言藤田睡庵九月六日友閑（花押）渡邊五郎兵衛殿御報
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