Letter by Araki Sohaku
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作者荒木素白
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- アラキソハクヒツショジョウ
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- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001138-0000
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- CC BY Images license
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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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A celebrated calligrapher of the early Edo Period, Araki Sohaku (1600-85) was greatly influenced by his lord, Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (1579-1638), under whom he served as vassal. He originally practiced Daishi School calligraphy (originated by the Reverend Kobo Daishi Kukai), but was gradually attracted to the classical style of the Heian Period, some six centuries earlier. Sohaku spent years hand-copying this period’s calligraphic masterpieces and was later hailed as the reviver of the style. The letter exhibited here makes reference to the Houn-In Estate, which housed a Zen sub-temple located near the famous Ninnaji Temple in northern Kyoto. It was a family temple for the Karasumaru clan. Obviously there had been trouble concerning the ownership of this sub-temple’s estate and the letter’s addressee must have helped Sohaku in resolving the dispute, as he is grateful. From the letter’s date, April of a leap year, one can conclude that it was written on April 29, 1626. Sohaku was 27 at the time
此中法雲院屋敷之義種々御地走之段別而忝存候如何様共任御意候間弥相調候様ニ奉頼存候相済事ニて早々御礼ニ可参候少も成事ニ候者広ク望申事ニ候如何様ニも尊公へまかせ置申候拙子者宗俊へ申入候恐惶謹言壬四月廿九日（花押）
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