Waka Kaishi by Karasumaru Mitsuhiro
- Person
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作者烏丸光広
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- カラスマルミツヒロヒツワカカイシ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000847-0000
- 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
- Brown Handwriting Rectangle Wood Creative arts
Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (1579-1638) was an Edo-Period aristocrat and noted poet, who was the son of the Minister Equivalent Mitsunobu (1549-1611). Although he advanced smoothly in the official hierarchy, his entanglement in a palace group sex scandal involving several ladies-in-waiting (1609) angered Emperor Goyozei (1571-1617) so much so that he was banished into exile. Later, General Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) worked to have Mitsuhiro pardoned. After being released from banishment, he reassumed a public office, eventually becoming the Provisional Major Counselor of the Senior Second Rank. Versatile artist and free-spirited character, Mitsuhiro showed skills in waka, renga (linked waka poems), brush-ink calligraphy and painting, as well as the formalized art of the tea ceremony (chanoyu). He practiced Zen under Priest Isshi-Bunshu (1608-1646). Training in waka composition under Hosokawa Yusai (1534-1610), he left a private collection of his works, Koyo Wakashu（lit. Golden Leaf Poems). Hailed as one of the most outstanding calligraphers of the era, Mitsuhiro was often referred to as one of the “Kannei-no-Sampitsu,” or the Three Brushes of the Kannei Era. He was originally trained in the traditional Jimyo-In School calligraphy, as was the custom among aristocrats. But he taught himself the Koetsu style and later the Teika style, finally establishing an unstructured and almost freestyle calligraphy that can aptly be called the Mitsuhiro Style.A poetry party convened under the theme of “mist-covered peaks” was held three times in Mitsuhiro’s lifetime – in 1596, 1616 (New Year’s poetry party) and 1636 (retired emperor’s poetry party). Judging from Mitsuhiro’s writing style, the exhibit was most likely written on January 9, 1936, at a poetry party held at the palace of Emperor GoMizuno-o (1596-1680). Obviously, Mitsuhiro later made a clean copy of the original poem written on that occasion. He was 58 years old by then. The bold, unrestricted style shows what can be called the Mitsuhiro School.
Mist colors the mountains:Spring mist obscures near and far mountains, which have turned a spring-like light green.
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