Waka Kaishi by Princely Priest Sonchin
- Person
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作者尊鎮法親王
- Date
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- ソンチンホウシンノウヒツワカカイシ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000994-0000
- 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）
- URL
- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Rectangle Font Wood Art
Princely Priest Sonchin (1504-50) was Emperor GoKashiwabara’s fifth son. He was sent to Shorei-In Temple (1512) at age 9 and was declared imperial prince in the following year. Thereupon, his name was changed to Seigen. Five days later, he was announced to have completed preliminary Buddhist learning and was given the religious name of Sonyu, which was later changed to Sonchin. In 1541, Princely Priest Sonchin was appointed the 46th prelate of Tendai Temple, where he died nine years later at age 47 (1550). Renowned for his academic inclinations, Prince Sonchin was an achieved calligrapher with several extant brushworks, among which are the well-known commentaries he added to picture scrolls like the Illustrated History of Shin-nyo Do (Jp. Shin-nyo Do Engi). His calligraphic style derives from the Shoren-In School, but was later admired as the “Sonchin School,” a completely new school of his own making. The exhibited waka kaishi was probably composed at a New Year poetry party when the prince, 38, was serving as prelate at Tendai Temple. The brushstrokes show abundant use of ink, typical of the Shoren-in School.
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