Letter by Hachisuka Iemasa
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作者蜂須賀家政
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ハチスカイエマサヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002337-0000
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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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Hachisuka Iemasa (1558-1638) was a military general who lived between the late Momoyama Period and early Edo Period. The son of the famous warlord Hachisuka Koroku Masakatasu (1526-86), Iemasa first pledged loyalty to General Oda Nobunaga but later went to serve Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1575. In successive military campaigns, namely the battles of Nagashino (1575), Yamazaki (1582), Shizuga-Dake (1583) and the uprisings of the Negoro Saika rioters (1584), Iemasa fought brilliantly and was later rewarded with a fief of 173,000 goku (bales of rice) in Awa Province. In the following year, he was made the Lord of Awa. Thereafter, his military campaigns were even more spectacular. In Izu-Nirayama, he took part in the siege upon Odawara Castle, and he also fought in the Bunroku and Keicho campaigns to the Korean Peninsula. When the Battle of Sekigahara erupted in 1600, Iemasa sent his own son, Yoshishige, as a voluntary hostage to Tokugawa Ieyasu, as a gesture of his loyalty to the emerging military strongman. At this time, however, Iemasa retired into Buddhahood and assumed the Buddhist name of Hoan. He died in 1638 at the age of 81. Although a formidable military general, Iemasa was also a man of culture, thoroughly familiar with sado (way of tea; tea ceremony), while enjoying close friendships with tea masters Sen-no-Rikyu and Tsuda Sogyu. Their friendships are chronicled in tea party records. In this letter, Iemasa conveys gratitude for a gift – a boxful of the marinated innards of larks caught during a falcon hunt, as well as 50 salted larks. These were rare delicacies at the time, and Iemasawrites that he tried them right away and was very pleased. The addressee’s name is not readily decipherable, though the Kanji characters can be read as ‘Ichita’. As the letter is signed Hoan, it must have been written after Iemasa entered Buddhahood in 1600, and the somewhat sober and quiet hand suggests that he was in his 60s or 70s.
昨日たかノひはりノもゝけノしほからわけ物壱 并同しほひはりかす五十 おくり給候誠おもひ被入如仰ノ音信書中ニ難申尽以面満足ノほと可申候恐々謹言八月六日いちた四郎左衛門尉殿蓬庵
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