Scroll with Excerpts from Wakan Roeishu by Hirano Chuan
- Person
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作者平野仲安
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ワカンロウエイシュウショウ
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001925-0000
- 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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Hirano Chuan (years of birth and death unknown) was a Kyoto-born calligrapher of the early Edo Period. Trained under Shokado Shojo (1584-1639), Chuan was later hailed as one of the highest-achieving Shokado School disciples. (This school was also called Takimoto School.) Chuan wrote Japanese phonetic syllabary of kana skillfully. According to Takimoto Shiori (Takimoto School biography and episodes: pub. 1796), connoisseurs and collectors would often mistake Chuan’s works with those of his master, Shojo. This handscroll made by pasting 10 torinoko sheets (hard paper) to create a commissioned exemplar. The paper is gorgeously decorated with fine gold and silver foils and printed motifs in gold and silver mud. The elegantly varied printed plum, bamboo and wisteria trees and the ink-brush stream give off a breeze-like cooling effect. The 12 poems are quoted from the two-volume Wakan Roeishu (Anthology of Japanese Chinese Poems for Recitation) by alternating them in Chinese characters (kanji) and Japanese letters (hiragana). However, note that the kanji are not in original Chinese forms, but rather are phonetic representations, perhaps to enable people to recite the poems. Completed on February 6, 1667, the exhibit is really the work of a Shokado School master, with the delicate under-paintings matching perfectly with the refined brushwork.
The lotus flower, reflected on a pond, is like a red robe being washed in water. Lotus leaves grow in muddy water but keep a pure heart, without getting muddled. But now they’re fooling me with the dewdrops on the leaves, by making them look like pearls. My old teacher passed away. The garden around his house has not put on the autumn colors. Only a single fallen leaf…It makes the evening all the more desolate.
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