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牡丹花肖柏筆消息 

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制作年 AD16
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ボタンカショウハクヒツショウソク
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Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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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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Botanka Shohaku (1443-1527) was a highly achieved rengashi, or renga (linked poem/linked verse) poet of the latter Muromachi Period. The son of Provisional Major Counselor Nakano-in Michiatsu, he sought Buddhism at a young age and was renamed Shohaku. Later, he called himself Botanka, but he also had other names, such as Muan and Rokaken, that were used in artistic circles. Shohaku was a disciple of Iio Sogi (1421-1502) in the pursuit of renga and Japanese classics and was later given oral instructions in the secrets of these arts. Working together with Sogi and Socho (1448-1502), he edited Minase Sangin Hyakuin (A Poem of One Hundred Links by Three Minase Poets) and assisted Sogi in the compilation of the quasi-imperially commissioned poetry collection Shinsen Tsukuba Shu (a collection of about 2000 renga poems composed in 60 years). Trying to avoid the Onin Civil War raging in the state capital of Kyoto, Shohaku fled to Settsu (in today’s northeast Osaka), but he often went up to Kyoto to attend renga and poetry composition parties commissioned by the imperial court. He later moved to Sakai.This letter was written by Shohaku to make a gift of the Kankyo Sho to a Yoshiro (details unknown), which later came to be discussed at a party Shohaku had been invited to. The Kankyo Sho was an anthology of poems Shohaku supposedly edited between 1507 and ’08 in Ikeda, Settsu country, when he was 66 or 67. He selected 1,324 waka poems from the 10 imperially commissioned poetry anthologies, ranging from the Kokin Wakashu (Collection of Ancient and Modern Poems) to Shoku Gosen Wakashu (Later Anthology of Poems Continued), postKokinshu, and nine other poems selected from other anthologies. The total of 1,333 poems contained in this anthology exemplifies the epitome of Japanese poetry writing. The simplistic calligraphy shows subdued beauty bordering on meagerness.

一日は御心しつかに候つる忘かたくて又閑居抄進之候萬文につくしかたく候かしく[封]与四郎とのへ 夢まいる

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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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了意 丙辰五 極め

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了意 丙辰五 極め

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了意 丙辰五 極め

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了意 丙辰五 極め