Letter by Terada Muzen
- Person
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作者寺田無禅
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- テラダムゼンヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Noted calligrapher of the Edo Period Terada Muzen (?-1691) served three generations of the noble Konoe family and is said to have lived to the amazing old age of 119. Studying calligraphy under Fujiki Atsunao (1582-1649), Muzen mastered the classical Jodaiyo style. With this and his training in Confucianism, waka and renga (linked verse) composition, chanoyu and Zen philosophy, he was hailed a true intellectual of the era.It is New Year’s Eve, and Muzen had been commissioned to draw festive paintings (of boats filled with treasures, etc.) to commemorate the season. He writes that he has finished painting five of them, which are to be promptly shipped to the client, a Furusawa Sayemon (identity unknown), accompanied by noshi (a square piece of wrapping paper). Muzen has also composed the opening line of a poem and asks the addressee to add to the verse and return it to him. The opening line reads like this: “If there is any space left on the Treasure Boat, do not forget to load this Year of the Horse.” (Note: The Year of the Horse is the seventh on the Chinese zodiac calendar.)
如仰改年之御慶目出度申納候先刻罷出不能御報候寶船之事則申出五枚進之候今年ハ其元取分御にき／＼しくめてたく存候而のしをそへ進之候寶船にあまらハのせよ午のとし珍重々々以上春長ニわき所望々々除夜（花押）古澤左衛門様無禅
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