Tanzaku by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu
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作者足利義満
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制作年 AD14
- Title
- アシカガヨシミツヒツタンザク
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002502-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
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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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The third shogun of the Muromachi military government, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) was the son of the second shogun, Yoshiakira (1330-67), and the grandson of the first shogun, Takauji (1305-58). He assumed this highest of military offices at age 11 and exerted great efforts to perpetuate the authority vested in the shogunate (military government). When Tsuyomon-In Sanjo Takako (1351-1406), the biological mother of Emperor GoKomatsu (1377-1433, then age 30) passed away in 1406, Yoshimitsu asked his wife, Hino Yasuko (1369-1419), to assume the role of the emperor’s mother figure. Thereafter, she was called by the honorary title of Kitayama-In. In 1392, Shogun Yoshimitsu called back Emperor GoKameyama (?-1424) to Kyoto to encourage the return of the Three Imperial Regalia to Emperor GoKomatsu, thus unifying the previously split imperial authority of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In 1394, Yoshimitsu abdicated, passed on the shogun’s title to his son, Yoshimochi, and became Chancellor. Two years later, he also retired from this post and became a Buddhist priest. He built the Kitayama-Tei Mansions, which included the now world-famous Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji Temple). From here, he wielded supreme power and was feared as the “Lord of Kitayama.” Although a military general, Yoshimitsu was deeply attached to the culture and lifestyle of the nobles and, as such, hosted many courtly events, including poetry parties and football (kemari) tournaments. He paid respect to Zen Buddhism, Gozan Literature (lit. “Five Mountain Academism”), and imported foreign culture, leading to the blossoming “Kitayama Culture,” in which aristocratic and military tastes blended in unprecedented splendor. Yoshimitsu was an excellent poet, with a total of 25 poems spread among Shin-Goshui Wakashu and other imperially commissioned anthologies. Yoshimitsu’s calligraphy was more refined than his father’s and grandfather’s, reflecting his education by aristocrats. As only a few authentic works of his remain, the exhibited tanzaku is a rare, precious legacy.
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