Letter by Fujiwara Seika
- Person
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作者藤原惺窩
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- フジワラセイカヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000384-0000
- 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 Font Art Rectangle Paper
Fujiwara Seika (1561-1619) was a Confucian scholar during the early Edo Period. Born as the son of Reizei Tamezumi (1531-78), his family lineage can be traced all the way back to Fujiwara-no-Teika (also Sadaie, 1162-1241), the great literary figure of ancient Japan. Seika was the 12th-generation descendant of this famous family. As an adult, Seika became a Buddhist monk at Shokokuji Temple but later studied Chu-tzu doctrine, a new school of Confucianism, leading him to be hailed as the originator of modern Confucianism in Japan. He trained many famous disciples, including Hayashi Razan (1583-1657), who became the Confucian instructor for the Tokugawa military government; physician Hori Kyoan (1585-1642); and Matsunaga Sekigo (1592-1657); as well as other noted scholars.Seika’s calligraphy shows the strong influence of the Gozan (‘Five Sacred Mountains’) priests, whose style was based on the Chinese. The identity of the addressee ‘Mr. Karo’ is not clear, but he was perhaps Seika’s scholarly associate because it appears that he had asked Seika to clarify a question about a Chinese classic. Seika replies in this letter that they should both work together to resolve the problem. He ends the letter saying, as if in self-mockery, “What a fine day today, but I am a poverty-stricken scholar, and my life never seems to change.”
猶以本邦之古書残り留まり候も此等にハ過候ましきやらん今朝之日記及電矚候ぬ大切之物に候歟如何如示暁夏五伝疑数多思召候哉謹言相見候哉貼紙しるしつけ候ても難尽候事に候き暫時被枉花轂候へかし相共に商量候而其上騰書可然哉と存候ハ奈何今日特奇有之快霽に候ける此元甕の牖縄の枢ハ今更いとふへきにしも候はすや かしく 賀郎君書幌右（花押）
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