Letter by Kobori Enshu
- Person
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作者小堀遠州
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- コボリエンシュウヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000336-0000
- 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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- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Font Rectangle Writing Paper
Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) had several names; his real name was Masakazu, but he used the pseudonym Soho for artistic endeavors and also called himself “Koho-An.” He originated the Enshu-style tea ceremony and was admired as one of the three greatest tea masters of Japan, the other two being Sen-no-Rikyu and Furuta Oribe. In 1608, Kobori Masakazu was appointed Lord of Ohmi (today’s Shizuoka Prefecture) and was called Enshu thereafter. (“Enshu” is synonymous with Ohmi Province.) A man of multiple talents, highly successful landscape designer among them, Kobori Enshu patterned his calligraphic style after the orthodox Teika Style (originated by Fujiwara-no-Teika; 1162-1241).In this letter, Enshu writes that a messenger arrived from Itamiya Sofu (years of birth and death unknown) to tell him that Yagyu Munenori (1571-1646) visited Sofu on his way to Nanto (lit. “Southern Capital,” today’s Nara City) and notes that the two enjoyed chatting. As Munenori is scheduled to stay in Fushimi (in Kyoto) for a few more days, Enshu urges the recipient of this letter (unidentified) to come over and visit. Enshu also reports on the Korean Mission’s visit to Edo to pay a courtesy call on the Tokugawa military government and how beautifully it snowed on the night the envoys arrived. According to other records, this series of events occurred December 1936. Enshu was 58 years old at that time.
尚々内々之御方宗不所使候間むらさき野ニ御住被成候所申上候先日者南都へ存たる人無之候罷越柳但州へ定而堺へ御下向被成候と懸御目御物語承候存候伏見へ二三日も可有滞留之由又高麗人江戸へ爰元可被成御通候間参て御礼申上候晩大雪ふり申候由候可得貴意候かしくこま人も御調はこひて白雪も猶とよ年のしるしなるらん十三日（花押）
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