Letter by Sanjonishi Sanetaka
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作者三条西実隆
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- サンジョウニシサネタカヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-002011-0000
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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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Muromachi nobleman Sanjonishi Sanetaka (1455-1537) was a famed man of culture with the highest academic and cultural achievements of the time. He was born as the second son to the Minister of the Center Kinyasu, but his elder brother Sanetsura died young, so he succeeded to the family headship at the age of 4. At this time, his birth name of Kinsei was changed to Kin-nobu, but that name was later changed to Sanetaka upon his coming of age. He continually climbed the administrative ranks and, in 1506, was appointed the Minister of the Center. Thoroughly familiar with both Chinese and Japanese classics and traditional ways and manners, he devoted himself to the research of ancient literary masterpieces like the Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji). Succeeding to Ichijo Kaneyoshi (also pronounced as Kanera; 1402-81), Sanjonishi Sanetaka was instrumental in kindling renewed interest for Japanese studies during the Middle Ages of Japan. In waka poetry composition, Sanetaka received private coaching and oral instructions in the secrets of the form from Iio Sogi (1421-1502) and To-no-Tsuneyori (1401-?), thereupon developing his literary talents to their fullest. He and Botanka Shohaku (1443-1527) studied together under the same master. Takeno Jo-ou (1502-55), famed in the chanoyu tea ceremony, was Sanetaka’s disciple. The multi-talented Sanetaka was also an achieved calligrapher. Later called the Sanjo School or Shoyo-in School, his style of calligraphy had many followers. His personal diary, Sanetaka Koki (lit. Lord Sanetaka’s Diary), offers an important glimpse into the history of the latter Muromachi Period. The letter shown here was circulated by then Provisional Major Counselor Sanjonishi Sanetaka to his fellow aristocrats to ask about their attendance at the monthly poetry composition party being held at the palace. The addressee, simply written as the “New Junior Counselor” is the key to determining the year this letter was written. Since Takatsuji Norinaga (1469-1525) was appointed to the above post on January 28, 1490, he would have been the addressee as of February 4. From these facts, one can assume that this letter was sent on February 4, 1490, and Sanetaka’s aforementioned diary verifies this assumption. The meeting for wakan renku, or the poetry of linked Japanese or Chinese verse, was an exclusive palace event attended by Emperor Tsuchimikado and Prince Katsuhito (later Emperor Gokashiwabara). Sanetaka was 36 that year.
［端裏書］ 三品勝仁親王六位上道阿弥諸所様右当年別給所明応二年三月‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐当月御會事来九日之由被仰下候也二月四日実隆柳原殿「歓楽仕候煩減候者可致祗候候」勧修寺殿「奉」中御門殿「奉」四条殿「明日可申入候」町殿武者小路殿「御方」冷泉殿「方」中院殿「奉」「以便宜可申下候 久我殿被伝申給候哉」姉小路殿「奉」新少納言殿「奉」＊＊「」内は、回文をうけた証左。それぞれ当人の加筆。
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