Letter by Reizei Tamemasu
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作者冷泉為益
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- レイゼイタメマスヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001649-0000
- 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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Muromachi poet and court noble Reizei Tamemasu (1516-70) was the son of Tamekazu (1486-1549), who was the head of the House of Kami-Reizei. His Buddhist name was Shukaku. In the administration, Tamemasu climbed to the post of Provisional Middle Counselor. He was best known as a poet and enjoyed patronage by Emperor Gonara (1497-1557). During the reign of Emperor Ogimachi (1517-93), however, the Reizei School of poetry withered when the rivaling House of Asukai leapt to prominence in the literary world. Subsequently, Tamemasu sent a letter to Emperor Ogimachi lamenting the cold treatment he was suffering. In 1562, Tamemasu retired from the Provisional Major Counselor’s post and moved down to Suruga (today’s Shizuoka Prefecture), where his father had a good friend with a passion for classics, Lord Imagawa. Tamemasu died at age 55 in 1570.The details concerning this extant letter are not clear. Obviously it is a reply discussing the date of meeting with the addressee, someone named Makino Saburo Emon. Tamemasu says that both the 13th and 14th are not convenient for him, so he will come on the 15th. Tamemasu seems to have been building a house. The addressee may be Makino Shigetoki (?-1506), who was Imagawa Ujichika (1473-1526)’s vassal and a renga enthusiast, but there is no evidence to justify this claim. In the history of calligraphy, Tamemasu belonged to the Shoren-In School. Some extant tanzaku (poem cards; poems written on narrow strips of paper) by Tamemasu clearly show characteristics of Shoren-In style, but the style of the letter is closer to that of Teika, the founder of his family lineage. Perhaps this is due to the influence of his father, Tamekazu, who was a faithful follower of Teika-style calligraphy.
猶／＼文ノ中ノ物二慥請取申候則書物返し貴札本望存候昨日申候猶庄三へ御出之由承候其刻他出申入候以上いたし不懸御目御残多存候一、十四日五日之中玉案へ之儀十四日ハ精進候間五日ニ参度候又十三日ニ其方へ参候へ之由是も精進又手前作事も不出来候間参間敷候一、たゝミ出来之由祝着申候やかて急々参へく候一、江戸衆へ内々被申候由祝着申候御茶可申入候猶庄三へ申入候かしく四月九日 （花押）牧三右殿返事
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