Letter by Hosokawa Yusai
- Person
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作者細川幽斎
- Date
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- ホソカワユウサイヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002305-0000
- 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 Writing Rectangle Paper
Hosokawa Yusai (1534-1610) was a daimyo (warlord; landed general) and tea aficionado of the Momoyama Period. Born to Mibuchi Harukazu, he was originally named Fujitaka. Yusai and Genshi were his pen names. Yusai was later adopted by Hosokawa Mototsune and served Ashikaga Yoshiharu. When Yoshiaki’s brother, Ashikaga Yoshihide, passed away, Yusai planned to institute Yoshiaki to be the next shogun. He later sided with General Oda Nobunaga and was given a fief in Nagaoka and Tango provinces (both are currently located in Kyoto). But when the coup d’etat broke out at Honnoji Temple (Nobunaga was murdered by his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide), Yusai and his son Tadaoki shaved off their hair, a gesture of innocence and neutrality. Thereafter, he followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and then was given an important post by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa military government. Yusai was a learned scholar both in Japanese classics and Chinese prose and had a prominent position in waka and renga poetry, as well as the art of tea. He was one of the most highly trained intellectual minds of the era. In this letter, he mentions that the tea presented him by the tea dealer Kambayashi of Uji was excellent. It is addressed to Kambayashi Nyudo, most likely Kambayashi Hisamochi (1542-1606), who supervised all the tea dealers of Uji in those days. (Tea contests were favorite pursuits among connoisseurs. Participants tried to identify the growing area – whether it was from Toganowo or not – of a particular tea or name the tea manufacturer from the taste, aroma and color.) The strokes flow with naturalness, showing what an achieved calligrapher Yusai was.
尚々茶一段出来候聞茶送給賞翫祝着之至候茶之時分可罷越候間萬々以面可申候間不具候恐々謹言幽斎三月十日玄旨（花押）上林入道殿参
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