Scroll of Tracing Copies from Chinese Books by Yashiro Hirokata
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作者屋代弘賢
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制作年 AD19
- Title
- ヤシロヒロカタヒツリンショカン
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001438-0000
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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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Yashiro Hirokata (1758-1841) was a Japanology scholar and an official of the Tokugawa Administration toward the end of the Edo Period. For generations, the Yashiro family served the shogunate (military administration) as immediate vassals. Hirokata’s calligraphic training in the Jimyoin School commenced when he was seven, practicing under Mori Masayoshi, one of the government private secretaries. He studied waka composition under Reizei Tamemura (1712-1774), Japanology under Hanawa Hoki-ichi (1746-1821) and accompanied Shibano Ritsuzan (1736-1807) in the surveys of Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Kyoto and Nara. This proved to be a great experience for expanding his learning. Later, he was promoted to a private secretary in the shogunate.After the Korean diplomatic mission’s visit to Japan in 1811, it was Hirokata who wrote the Japanese government’s official response to the Korean king. (The Korean diplomatic mission, or “Chosen-Tsushinshi,” paid courtesy calls on Japan 12 times altogether between 1607 and 1811.) Hirokata was a known literary collector. He built a library on the banks of Shinobazu Pond in Edo, with a collection of some 50,000 Japanese and Chinese titles. He named it Shinobazu Library. The three handscrolls were made perhaps as exemplars. The first scroll is a tracing copy of Priest Chiei’s calligraphy in Chinese regular script (kaisho) of “Kiden-no-Fu,” (lit. Returning to the Field) written by Chang Heng (Jp. Chokou; Chinese poet, scholar and astronomer of the Later Hang Dynasty). The second scroll shows a copy in semi-cursive script (gyosho) from China’s most famous calligrapher, Wang Xizhi (Jp. Oh Gishi), who wrote the original Preface to the Lan Ting (Ch. Lán Tíng Xù; Jp. Rantei Jo; lit. Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion). The last scroll is a copy from a collection of letters, Sekitoku-Shu (also written by Wang Xizhi), in cursive script (sousho). All three scrolls use hard torinoko paper decorated with soft nebulae gold-mud design. These pieces were likely created as exemplar gifts when Hirokata was 77.
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