Sacred Name of Kakinomoto-no-Hitomaro by Yamazaki Sokan
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作者山崎宗鑑
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- カキノモトヒトマルジゴウ
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-000331-0000
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- 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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Yamazaki Sokan (1465-1553) 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. A poem and image of Kakinomoto-no-Hitomaro, one of the representative poets of the Manyoshu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves). After the Heian Period, Hitomaro was worshiped as a “guardian god of poetry.” Nobles would hang Hitomaro’s portrait on the alcove of their best rooms. Sometimes they simply wrote his name, instead of elaborate paintings. Sokan’s rendering here is a good example of this. Across the top is one of Hitomaro’s representative poems from the preface to Kokin Wakashu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Poems). Sokan wrote using a typical Daishi School technique.
Off a small island in the Akashi Bay, I take a last glimpse of a small boat disappearing into the morning fog.
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- Sacred Name of Kakinomoto-no-Hitomaro by Yamazaki Sokan
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- 二重箱 裂覆有り 古筆了信極(昭和15) 了佐極札 折紙1
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