Single-line Calligraphy by Yamazaki Sokan
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作者山崎宗鑑
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- ヤマザキソウカンヒツイチギョウショ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000126-0000
- 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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- Art
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- Handwriting Font Rectangle Art Monochrome
Yamazaki Sokan (?-1539?) was a renga (linked verse) poet active from the Muromachi Period through the Warring Period(Sengoku Jidai) of medieval Japan. Originally hailing from Ohmi (Shiga Pref.), Sokan’s real name was Shina Norishige. Sokan was usually called by his common name of Yasaburo. He first went to serve Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465-1489), the ninth Shogun of the Muromachi military government, and served well as the Shogun’s head secretary. After his lord’s demise, Sokan left his military post to become a monk at age 25, adopting the new name of Sokan. He lived in Yamazaki in Yamashiro Province (today’s Kyoto Pref.) during the Meio Era (1492-1501), hence he came to be called Yamazaki Sokan.Sokan befriended renga poets like Iio Sogi (1421-1502), Socho (1448-1532) and other men of literature and was devoted to literary pursuits, such as linked verse renga and haikai. He separated the first three lines of a linked verse, made up of five, seven and five syllables, and made it into an independent poem called a haikai, which later evolved into haiku. This brushwork shows the third and fourth lines from a five-syllable regulated poem (“Hokkyo Temple”) contained in Vol. 8 of the Collection of Poems of Dù Shàolíng (also Du Fu or Tu Fu, 712-770; Jp: Toho), the outstanding poet of China’s Tang Dynasty. The poem can be interpreted thus: “My heart aches but the sight of an old temple near a precipice dissipated the gloom.” One can see that the writer had established the original Sokan School of calligraphy, after years of training in Daishi School calligraphy.
神傷山行深。愁破崖守古。宗鑑（花押）
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