Hiragana Letter by Nijo Tameakira
- Person
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作者二条為明
- Date
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制作年 AD14
- Title
- ニジョウタメアキラヒツショウソク
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Nijo Tameakira (1295-1364) was a courtier aristocrat during the Kamakura Period and Nambokucho Period (Period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties) and was also a highly achieved poet who was influential in the world of poetry composing, sometimes serving as lecturer/instructor at poetry parties. He was taken into confidence by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiakira (1330-67). Later, he was appointed by Emperor Gokogon (1338-74) to serve as a committee member for compiling the imperial anthology of Shin Shui Wakashu (The New Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poety). Tameakira, however, died without finishing the editing.The Taiheiki (Chronicle of the Great Peace) Vol. 2 describes an episode in which Tameakira had joined the army of Emperor Godaigo (1288-1339) but was arrested by the Rokuhara deputy government for plotting against the Shogunate then headed by Hojo Takatoki. On the verge of execution, Tameakira composed a poem lamenting that he had been arrested for a worldly affair and not for the matter of primary concern to him, which was the art of poetry composition, the family business. This poem is said to have moved the governor of Suruga Tokoha Norisada so much so that Tameakira was pardoned. The hiragana letter appearing here describes the incident. The name of the addressee is omitted, perhaps out of consideration to the addressee not wanting to be implicated in a political development. From the content of the letter, it was obviously addressed to somebody close to Tameakira. Traces of writing are visible on the back of this letter, indicating this letter is shihai-monjo, or writing on waste paper. However, endorsing the episode in the Taiheiki to be a fact, this letter serves as an important historical document.
あらあら申しんし候十八日に六波羅へ召とられうきよのなかいまそかきりならんとおもひおりしをりからに駿河守参しほとによしや是ハ心ある武士なりとおもひ出し硯置てかく申侍りきおもひきやわかしきしまのみちならてうきよのことをとはるへしとはと申出してかひをのかれ参候うかりし世のならひとはしりなからいまさらに涙はとゝめかたく候為明（花押）
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