Sacred Names: Oracles of Three Shrines
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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サンシャタクセン
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000285-0000
- 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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Yamazaki Sokan (?-1539) was a renga poet of the Muromachi through Sengoku (Warring States) periods. His real name was Shina Yorishige, but he was commonly called Yasaburo. He first served under the 9th Muromachi Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465-89), as secretary-general, but when Yoshihisa passed away, Yamazaki became a monk at age 25 and adopted the Buddhist name of Sokan. Sometime between 1492 and 1501, he built a hut in Yamazaki in Yamashiro, on the outskirts of Kyoto, and adopted the name of the locale as his new surname. In poetry, Sokan associated closely with renga masters Iio Sogi (1421-1502) and Socho (1448-1532) and promoted a new popular style of haikai. The “haikai renga” is said to have paved the way for haiku, composed of only three lines made up of five, seven, and five syllables respectively. The exhibited hanging scroll shows, from right to left, the names of three major shrines, Iwashimizu Hachiman, Ise, and Kasuga, as well as the respective oracles revealed to the shrines. During the Muromachi Period, oracles such as these were written by famous calligraphers and hung in the tokonoma alcove as an object of worship. The exhibited brushwork shows the characteristic style of Yamazaki Sokan, often called the Sokan School, noted for curved, sometimes semi-circular lines with bold brushstrokes. Influenced by the Daishi School, patterned after the calligraphy style of Kobo Daishi Kukai (The Most Revered Kukai), Sokan developed his unique style, with some letters being very bold and huge and dashing across two lines. The piece is the extant authentic handwriting of Sokan, and thus its value is priceless.
Great Bodhisattva Hachiman: Even if there were nothing to eat but blocks of iron, I (the Reigning God) would not take offering from foul-minded people. Even if a fire were raging, I would not flee into a malicious person’s house.(Note the introduction of Buddhist elements in the worshipping of a Shinto deity at a shrine. Shinto-Buddhism blending began to occur in the ancient Nara Period) Sun Goddess: Anyone gaining benefit by dirty means will be punished. Honest people may not see immediate reward, but in the end, they will win god’s mercy.(Note, the Sun Goddess is the reigning deity of the Grand Shrine of Ise, much worshipped as the ancestor of the imperial family line.)Kasuga Daimyojin (Great Illuminated Divinity): I will not visit the home of an evil man, even though he consecrates an altar for a thousand days. I will visit the home of honest and merciful people, even when they are despairing, and not worshiping the gods.
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