Mt. Fuji by Karasumaru Mitsuhiro
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作者烏丸光広
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- カラスマルミツヒロヒツフガクジガサン
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 紙本墨画
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001680-0000
- 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
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Rectangle Wood Font Art
Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (1579-1638) was an Edo-Period aristocrat and noted poet, who was the son of the Minister Equivalent Mitsunobu (1549-1611). Although he advanced smoothly in the official hierarchy, his entanglement in a palace group sex scandal involving several ladies-in-waiting (1609) angered Emperor Goyozei (1571-1617) so much so that he was banished into exile. Later, General Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) worked to have Mitsuhiro pardoned. After being released from banishment, he reassumed a public office, eventually becoming the Provisional Major Counselor of the Senior Second Rank. Contemplate Mt. Fuji drawn with a single stroke of the brush and a poem, of Mitsuhiro’s own making, written in the leftover space. Mitsuhiro was favored by General Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) and frequently visited Edo as a liaison between the imperial court (in Kyoto) and the military government (in Edo). Each time he went up to Edo, he visited Sumpu, the feudal province ruled by Ieyasu. As he made frequent trips along the Tokaido highway, he obviously had numerous chances to see the real Mt. Fuji, which therefore appears in many of his waka poems. Mitsuhiro’s Koyo Wakashu（lit. Golden Leaf Poems, Chapter 7）alone contains 20 poems depicting this holy mountain considered to be the most beautiful in Japan. Although the poem on the exhibited hanging scroll is not found in that private collection, the freestyle painting and writing rendered in light India ink is undoubtedly an authentic rendition by Mitsuhiro.
Morning or evening, the clouds at Mt. Fuji’s mountaintop will not clear away. Spirits may be showing a mirage of the imperial palace as it is often called “Place in the Clouds.”
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- Mt. Fuji by Karasumaru Mitsuhiro
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Quantity 1幅
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 軸頭漆塗り
- Attachments
- 巻止め／墨書（烏丸光廣卿正筆）
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