Five Large Characters by Matsudaira Sadanobu
- Person
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作者松平定信（楽翁）
- Date
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制作年 AD18
- Title
- マツダイラサダノブヒツゴダイジ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002237-0000
- 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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- Classification
- Art
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- Handwriting Font Art Ink Drawing
Matsudaira Sadanobu (1758-1829) was the Shogun’s advisor during the latter part of the Edo Period. He was the son of the high-ranking officer Tayasu Munetake (1715-71) and the grandson of the Eighth Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684-1751). He used various literary pseudonyms such as KyokuHo, RakuOh, FugetsuOh, KagetsuOh, etc., but is most well-known by the name RakuOh. When Sadanobu was 17, he was adopted by the Provincial Lord Matsudaira Sadakuni (1728-1790) of Shirakawa (Fukushima Pref.) and inherited the family name and title. He became the Shogun’s advisor in 1787 and initiated the Kansei Reforms. His conservative policies, however, were unpopular, so he returned to Shirakawa and worked on the revitalization of the local government. A dedicated scholar in his latter years, Sadanobu wrote Shuko Jisshu (Ten Categories of Collected Antiquities), the illustrated catalogs of antiques and art objects classified into 10 different categories, i.e., bell inscriptions, tomb inscriptions, framed tablets, calligraphy collections, seals and others, along with trace copies, dimensions and their whereabouts.. As such, it is a very valuable historical document. Sadanobu was a Jimyo-In style calligrapher and gladly produced framed tablets, calligraphic works, etc., when commissioned and left behind many such works. Exhibited Five-syllable phrase (“The fragrance of a southerly wind”) is found in the Chinese classic The Records of the Historian (Ch: Shiji, Jp.: Shiki) written by Sima Qian (Jp. Shiba Sen). The same poem is also found in The Origin of Ancient Poems (Ch. Gushi Yuan or Ku-shih Yüan). Sadanobu shows his characteristic use of the brush’s thick belly in copying this poem about the warm and fragrant southerly winds.
The warm and fragrant southerly winds.
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