Hiragana Letter by Shimazu Iehisa
- Person
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作者島津家久
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- シマヅイエヒサヒツショウソク
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000140-0000
- 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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Shimazu Iehisa (1576-1638) was a military general of the late Momoyama Period and early Edo Period. The third son of Shimazu Yoshihiro, Iehisa served warlords Toyotomi Hideyoshi and later Tokugawa Ieyasu and also won the favors of Regent Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614), as the Shimazu and Konoe families had been on amicable terms for three generations. Like many other military generals, Iehisa encouraged learning, and he himself was trained in waka and renga poetry, while also being attracted to tea and calligraphy. In this letter, Iehisa asks the recipient to lend him an incense burner and other goods if there are any surpluses. The addressee’s name is simply written as “Letter ‘ha’ of Ise”, perhaps, indicating a woman whose name began with the phonetic Japanese letter ‘ha’. (Note: Likely names are ‘Hatsu’ or ‘Haru’, for example.) Ise Family was a chief vassal of Shimazu Family. The reference to incense burning, a Buddhist practice, suggests that a memorial service was being held for the writer’s deceased father Yoshihiro, who died in 1619.This letter was likely written when Iehisa was in his late 40s. Although not necessarily a masterpiece, the greatly varied, casual brush strokes are definitely the work of a trained calligrapher.
［上段］ 返々かたなは いな事に候 わさと申候 うすむらさきの やうなる つかまきにて きんのつはの かたな 此方へハ まいらす候 さためて いせつる かたな そこに 御入候らん 可給候事 一りうきふまきゑの花のたい三ツ其元に 御入候や いかゝ可給候事 一そやものゝかうろ ［下段］あまた御入候つる一ツ可給候ほとけのまへにたき可申候一見てやとおもふその哥きんさくおほく候書付可給候又おもふ心ハをくれさりけりの哥も書付可給候其元さそさむく候らんこゝ元ハわたいりにて候尚々御入申候五月廿五日きやうよりいせはもしいゑ久まいる
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