Letter by Shokado Shojo
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作者松花堂昭乗
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ショウカドウショウジョウヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001932-0000
- 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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- Art
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- Handwriting Wood Font Art Rectangle
Shokado Shojo (1584-1639) was a Buddhist priest of the Shingon Sect during the Edo Period. After becoming Takimoto-bo Jitsujo’s disciple, Shojo succeeded his master to become head priest of the Takimoto-bo sub-temple. Later, Shojo conceded his post to one of his disciples and retired to the newly-built Shokado sub-temple. His deep virtues and charismatic personality earned him numerous followers and friendships with Confucian scholars, Zen monks and other intellectuals of the age. Notable among them were Konoe Nobutada (1599-1649), Ishikawa Jozan (1583-1672), Kogetsu Sogan (1574-1643), and Takuan Soho (1573-1645). Shojo studied the Oieryu School (lit. “honorable family school,” also Oie School) of Japanese-style wayo calligraphy under princely priest Soncho (an imperial prince who resided at a Buddhist temple), but it was the great Kobo Daishi (Priest Kukai) who Shojo truly admired, favoring the Daishi Style. After mastering this style, Shojo perfected an elegant, free-flowing style of brushwork, which was later renowned as the Shokado School, or Takimoto School, of calligraphy. The addressee’s name must have been written on the surface of the folded letter, but it was lost when the letter was fragmented and framed. The unidentified recipient, from whom Shojo received a basketful of ripe persimmons and a poem, is likely to have been someone very close, and Shojo apologizes that he wasn’t able to send a thank-you note for the gift sooner because he was busy with a commissioned calligraphy work. This letter of gratitude was written after 1637, when Shojo moved to the Shokado sub-temple.
先刻思召寄御懇翰ことに見事無類之紅柿一籠被下過分恭奉存候御礼申尽しかたく奉存候折から従淀得客書物ニ書かゝり返答たに不申上候更ニ非本意候先日御来訪忝奉存候其折からも得客不得御意千々万々御理不仕申上候存之外普請ニ取紛迷惑仕事候一御哥承事誠以奉察候詠感大かたならす候不取敢返し和歌のうらに熟しかゝりしことの葉ハ色もあかしの柿の本哉誠ニ／＼人麿もはち給ふへからす奉存候如何様不図以参候積鬱可得御意候其節万々御礼可申上候恐憧頓首廿八日松花堂
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