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Letter by Kondo Doye

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Date
制作年 AD17
Title
コンドウドウエヒツショジョウ
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Depository
Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Ref. number
AW-CEN-001765-0000
License
CC BY Images license
Creditline

慶應義塾(センチュリー赤尾コレクション)

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https://objecthub.keio.ac.jp/en/object/334
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Art
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Kondo Doye was the name used by eleven generations of lacquerers (nushiya) exclusively commissioned to serve the Maedas, the governors of Kaga Province (Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture). The Kondo family history spans over two and a half centuries from the early Edo Period to the Meiji Era of modern Japan, during which the Kondos won national recognition thanks to patronage by tea masters such as Furuta Oribe (1543-1615) and Kobori Enshu (1579-1647). The writer of this letter must be the third-generation Doye (?-1684), calculating from the time that Josei (1594-1682), mentioned in the letter, was alive. This Doye also went by the common name of Hikoroku.Here he writes that he is delivering a set of tea utensils, along with newly made furniture, to two retainers who had been commissioned to procure the items for an unnamed high-ranking official who had just had a new house built. The “Josei” mentioned was the second-generation heir to the Ohnishi clan of Kyoto, whose business was making cast-iron teakettles. Hailed as the nation’s most skilled kettle maker, Josei found the great tea masters Furuta Oribe and Oda Uraku among his clients. Josei was reputed to be the best in the family, with his strength being the production of utensils loyally representing the chanoyu aesthetics developed by Kobori Enshu.

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Ref. number
AW-CEN-001765-0000
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CC BY
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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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Depository
Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko)
Campus Mita
URL
https://objecthub.keio.ac.jp/en/object/334
Classification
Art

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Title (EN)
Letter by Kondo Doye

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Identifiers

Title (EN)
Letter by Kondo Doye

Physical description

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