Segment of Illustrated Scroll of the New Yueh-fu Poems
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作者GOKYŌGOKU Yoshitsune
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制作年 鎌倉
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- クジョウドノギレボンシンガフエマキコトバガキダンカン
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-002216-0000
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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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Shin Gafu (Hsin Yueh-fu Shin, or New Yueh-fu Poems）refers to the 50 verses that Po Chu-i (772-846, Bo Juyi) composed at the Tang court in China and they are listed in Volumes 3 and 4 of the Collection of Po Chu-i’s Poems and Writings. Po’s verses were immensely popular among the Heian aristocrats. Murasaki Shikibu (Lady Murasaki, 987?-1014?) was known to have lectured about Po’s poems in front of Empress Akiko (also Shoshi, 988-1074), the spouse of Emperor Ichijo (980-1011), while numerous calligraphy masters copied Po’s poems to make literary gifts for the nobility. The Kinuji-gire written by Ono-no-Michikaze (also Tofu, 894-966) and Fujiwara-no-Sukemasa (944-998) are the legacies preserved to this day. The zeal for Shin Gafu found in the imperial court led to great discussions and debates; as a result, summaries of such discussions with accompanying glossaries of technical terms were created, as exemplified by the Shin Gafu Summary. The Lord Kujo’s Version shares the contents of the Shin Gafu Summary. Five segments exist today: one of them is shown here, depicting a verse entitled The Submission of a Savage Tribe from Volume 3 of the Collection of Po Chu-i’s Poems and Writings. From the size and ornamental style of the decorative paper, this segment reminds one of an illustrated handscroll of Shin Gafu. One can assume the segment here was a part of the text of the Shin Gafu Emaki, or the Illustrated Scroll of the New Yueh-fu Poems. Since no other similar material exists, this short segment of only one leaf has a very important position in Japan’s literary tradition. The gold and silver dust and tiny geometric foils that decorate thepaper and the calligraphy style of the Gokyogoku School, established by Gokyogoku Yoshitsune (1169-1206), allows us to date this fragment to the early Kamakura Period, or the first half of the 13th century, close to the time of the production of the Illustrated Version of Murasaki Shikibu Diary. The name of the segment is likely attributed to the Kujo Family, who served as regents in the ancient imperial courts.
（六詔は初）めて瑣砕也あはせて一詔となりて漸強〔大〕也玄宗皇帝聖神なりといへども蛮屈〔強〕とこはくしてきたりしたがはざりき鮮于仲通六万のいくさ蛮をせめしにいくさおちて
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Materials 銀砂子・切箔 装飾料紙
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