Painting of a Bunkyu-Era Copper Coin and Poem Inscription by Yamaoka Tesshu
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作者山岡鐵舟
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制作年 AD19
- Title
- ヤマオカテッシュウヒツキョウカガサン
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001133-0000
- License
- 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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- Art
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Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1888) was a statesman with an active career during the last years of the Edo Period and the beginning of the Meiji Period, but was also famous as a swordsman. He was called by the common name of Tetsutaro but his real name was Takayuki. Born as the fifth son of Ono Takayoshi, a hatamoto (Shogun’s guardsman), he spent his boyhood in the mountainous regions of Hida Takayama (today’s Gifu Prefecture), which he left for Edo in 1852 after both his parents had died. He married the younger sister of the master spearman, Yamaoka Seizan (1829-1856), and later inherited the master’s name and household. During the turbulent years leading up to the Meiji Restoration (end of the 250-year military rule and restoration of the imperial order), Tesshu worked hard to set up a meeting between General Saigo Takamori (1827-1877), as the leader of the imperial army with the order to destroy the Tokugawa military government, and Katsu Kaishu (1823-1899), the military government official, thus contributing to the evacuation of the Edo Castle (Shogun’s stronghold) without bloodshed.After the successful restoration of imperial rule, Tesshu was appointed Assistant Minister of Sovereign’s Household and was later named a member of the Genro-In (The Chamber of Elders; the Meiji equivalent of the Senate). He died of illness at age 53 in July of the 21st year of the new Meiji Era. As a young boy, Tesshu practiced calligraphy under Iwasa Ittei (1779-1858) and was said to have received a master’s certificate as young as 14. The powerful strokes are typical of Tesshu’s brushworks, showing Daishi School influence. The inscription in Exhibit is a humorous poem about the evil attraction of money, written without a moment’s hesitation. The painting is a Bunkyu coin cast in the later Edo Period, and it shows a bold and daring style, as if a reflection of Tesshu’s own lifestyle.
The more money we have, the stingier we become. The less we have, the stingiest we will be.
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