Letter by Asukai Masayasu
- Person
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作者飛鳥井雅康
- Date
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- アスカイマサヤスヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001963-0000
- 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 Monochrome Pattern Writing
Asukai Masayasu (1436-1509) was a court noble of the Muromachi Period. He was ranked as a consultant in the first year of Onin (1468), and later served various administrative positions such as the Imperial Guard of the Right, provincial governor of Izumo country (today’s eastern Shimane Prefecture), and then Provisional Middle Counselor in 1479. Soon after his appointment to a province in Ohmi, he sought enlightenment in Buddha, assuming the Buddhist name Sosei. His sudden devotion to Buddhism caused quite a stir in political circles and his family. Masayasu preferred to call himself Jiraku-ken. In the House of Asukai, with their well-established fame in the arts of waka poetry composition and the kemari sport of aristocratic football, Masayasu became the adopted heir to his elder brother Masachika (1417-90) and assumed the office of official instructor in both of these pursuits for the Ashikaga Shogunate family. In calligraphy, his bold and dynamic style, later referred to as the Jiraku School, was contrasted with the elegant and florid traditional style. In the letter Masayasu sent to the Priest Genko (biography unknown), he offers gratitude “for the very polite reply” to the humble gift he had sent him earlier. He further thanks the priest for giving Masayasu’s messenger a gift (perhaps monetary). The style of calligraphy revealed in this letter is unrestricted and bold, creating a wonderful example of Jiraku-style ink-and-brush writing.
［端裏書］言弘和尚宋世‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ふしきの物進候処御懇に御返事喜入候仍使ニ重宝給候何としたる無謂御さた候哉らんかゝる隔心かましき御状も遣恨候無極候今重宝をハ身にとり申まいらせ候かしく
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