Letter by Kondo Doye
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作者近藤道恵（３代）
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- コンドウドウエヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001765-0000
- 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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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.
［上段］猶々釜や五郎左衛門儀先書にも如申上候今程浄清と申候御釜の切かた并浄清注文も追々申候見事成御かまに候去月廿六日之貴簡相達忝拝見申候然者内々被仰付候御家具其以後被仰下候三色并釜屋五郎左衛門ニ被仰付候釜此度御使江相渡候差下し申候御家具以下入御意申候様にと願申事に候自然御次而も候ハゝ可然様ニ御取成奉憑申候随分入念申候則注文も追々申候猶御用之儀［下段］可然仰下候恐惶謹言八月四日塗師道恵（花押）追而高左様へ申上候先日者被入御念示被下忝存候以上高柳馬左衛門様堀田弥兵衛様貴報
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