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One-Line Calligraphy by Okamoto Hansuke

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Date
制作年 AD17
Title
オカモトハンスケヒツイチギョウショ
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Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Ref. number
AW-CEN-001178-0000
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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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Okamoto Hansuke (1575-1657), a military strategist of the early Edo Period, was born into the Isonokami family but later adopted the Okamoto surname. Although he went by the common name of Hansuke, his real name was Nobunari. He served the Takeda Clan and later became a military strategist under Iyi Naotaka (1590-1659), the feudal lord of Hikone Province. Hansuke excelled not only in swordsmanship but also in the arts of tanka (short verse) composition, tea ceremony and India ink brush painting, in which he showed a special talent. This exhibit is a line from the “Come Away Home” (Ch. Gui Qu Lai Ci) poem written by Chinese poet Tao Yuanming (Jp. To Enmei; 365-427). The character “cloud” is written in cursive script (sosho) and with a deformed design often found in Zen priests’ brushwork. This exhibited piece was written when Hansuke was 82, just one year before his death.

Clouds are unpretentious and natural, like the state of my mind. I’ve now returned home like a bird tired of flying.

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AW-CEN-001178-0000
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CC BY
Creditline

慶應義塾(センチュリー赤尾コレクション)

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Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko)
Campus Mita
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One-Line Calligraphy by Okamoto Hansuke

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Identifiers

Title (EN)
One-Line Calligraphy by Okamoto Hansuke

Physical description

Weights and quantities
Quantity 1幅