Tanzaku by Kobayakawa Hideaki
- Person
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作者小早川秀秋
- Date
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- コバヤカワヒデアキヒツタンザク
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Kobayakawa Hideaki (1582-1602) was the fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada(1543-1608), who was the elder brother of Kitano-Mandokoro, the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Infant Hideaki was adopted by Hideyoshi and was allowed to use the name Hashiba Hidetoshi (Hashiba being Hideyoshi’s family name then). When an heir (named Hiroimaru at birth, then Hideyori when he came of age) was born to Hideyoshi in 1593, Hidetoshi was adopted by Kobayakawa Takakage (1537-97), and his name was changed to Hideaki in June 1597. Later in life, during the Keicho Campaign, Hideyoshi’s invasion of the Korean Peninsula, Hideaki was named Supreme Commander of the army, but was called back due to reckless actions. In the Battle of Sekigahara, Hideaki originally belonged to Lord Ishida Mitsunari (1560-1600)’s camp of Western Forces, but betrayed the former Toyotomi forces and joined the Eastern Forces led by Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)’s generals. Hideaki fought brilliantly in these wars and was later given the domains of Bizen, Bicchuu, and Mimasaka (all in Okayama Prefecture). He also was presented with the annual salary of 500,000 goku (bales of rice, a unit used to measure annuities, agricultural productivity, etc.). However, he met an unexpected death on October 18 of the same year (1602) at the mere age 21. The poem written on the exhibited tanzaku is a quote from the Shunmu-So (lit. Collection of Spring Dreams), the private anthology of Botanka Shohaku (1443-1527). Hideaki trained himself in the then fashionable Sanjo School and had become an achieved calligrapher of sound foundation.
The Reverend Shohaku dedicating a poem to his self-portrait: In the upheavals of our world, one cannot drink sake in peace. How did I wander onto this mountain path of the unforeseeable future?
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