Letter by Oda Uraku
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作者織田有楽
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- オダウラクヒツショジョウ
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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-002238-0000
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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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Oda Uraku (1547-1621) was a military general, not to mention an avid tea connoisseur, who lived from the late Momoyama Period to the early Edo Period. The 11th son of Oda Nobuhide (1510-51) and a younger brother to Oda Nobunaga (1534-82), Uraku was born Nagamasu, but he later took the tonsure and started going by the names Uraku, Urakusai and Joan. After the Revolt of the Honnoji (in which his elder brother Generalissimo Oda Nobunaga was assassinated), Uraku became Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-98)’s vassal and was endowed with a 2,000-goku fief in Mashita, Settsu Province. Then, during the Battle of Sekigahara, Uraku decided to side with and serve the Tokugawa forces, for which he was rewarded with a 30,000-goku fief in Yamabe Country, Yamato (today’s Nara Pref.). Thereafter, he went into a self-imposed exile in the Higashiyama Mountains by giving the majority of his estate to his children and leisurely living off the remaining property. He trained under the tea master Sen-no-Rikyu (1522-91) and established a new school, known as the Uraku School of tea ceremony. Yurakucho, one of Tokyo’s busy downtown areas, was named after Uraku, as he had a mansion outside the Sukiyabashi Bridge, a reward from Tokugawa Ieyasu. The people mentioned in this letter are not known, but the letter itself is an invitation to afternoon tea in December, addressed, perhaps, to a Buddhist priest among Uraku’s tea friends. As indicated on the letter, it was written in December 1620, a year before Uraku’s death at age 75, and is therefore one of his last writings.
返々朝昼共ニ必御出待申候以上明二日昼保長老晫長老申入候間御相伴ニ御出待申候明朝者両長老共ニ玄端殿御出候間首尾相伴ニ御越尤候恐々謹言壬十二月朔日有楽（花押）［封］春可老有楽御宿所
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