Tanzaku by Mouri Terumoto
- Person
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作者毛利輝元
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- モウリテルモトヒツタンザク
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001002-0000
- 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
- Brown Rectangle Wood Beige Handwriting
Mouri Terumoto (1553-1625) was a warrior of the Sengoku Period (lit. “Age of Country at War”), or the Warring Era. He was Takamoto (1523-63)’s first-born son and heir, and the grandson of famous General Mouri Motonari (1497-1571). In 1565, he was named Terumoto, by borrowing one character from the name of the 13th Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru. Terumoto rivaled Lord Oda Nobunaga (1534-82) and fought against Hashiba Hideyoshi (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi), who was campaigning for control over the Chugoku area, the Mouri Family’s domain. When Nobunaga was assassinated at Honnoji Temple in a coup d’etat, Hideyoshi suggested a truce, to which Terumoto agreed. Thereafter, Terumoto joined Hideyoshi’s camp, winning for him several military campaigns. In 1598, Mouri Terumoto was elevated to serve as one of the “Five Elders” (the most trusted advisers) in the Toyotomi Hideyoshi administration, but he lost in the Battle of Sekigahara (1600) and was punished by the victorious Tokugawa Ieyasu, upon which, he shaved his head and adopted the Buddhist name Gen-an Sozui. After being pardoned by Ieyasu in1604, Terumoto moved to the new castle he had built in Hagi, Nagato Province (Yamaguchi Prefecture), devoting his remaining years to rebuilding the finances of the Domain of Hagi.Terumoto was trained in poetry composition and was widely recognized as a highly educated, cultured person. His calligraphic style belongs to the Docho School, originated by Priest Docho (1554-1608), who was the younger brother of Konoe Sakifusa (1536-1612). The exhibited tanzaku is signed “Sozui” and, obviously, was written after 1600 in Terumoto’s old age, after he had become a monk. It is the opening lines of a linked verse, or renga.
Untitled: Over Iwashimizu Hachiman Shrine shines the autumn moon, clear and crisp as clean water. (Note: When describing “clear and crisp,” the Japanese often use the comparison of “clean water,” or “shimizu,” the word found in the shrine’s name.)
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- Tanzaku by Mouri Terumoto
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Quantity 1幅
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- 古筆了栄極
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