Letter by Anrakuan Sakuden
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作者安楽庵策伝
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- アンラクアンサクデンヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000166-0000
- 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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- Handwriting Rectangle Wood Font Art
Anrakuan Sakuden (1554-1642) was a Buddhist priest serving at Chikurin-In at Seiganji Temple in Kyoto, affiliated with the Jodo (Pure Land) Sect. In 1619, he received an imperial edict granting him permission to wear the honorable purple robe of a high priest. In his later years, Sakuden, gifted literarily and having a great sense of humor, built a tea room, named it “Anrakuan,” and lived a carefree life there. Seisuisho (A Collection of Humorous Anecdotes), one of his representative publications, is considered the forerunner of rakugo (comic storytelling).The addressee was omitted from this letter, but it is perhaps Sakuden’s close friend, Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (1579-1638). From the contents of the letter, one finds that its recipient had entertained a noble, perhaps Regent Konoe Nobuhiro. Sakuden notes that he heard about the feast and the admirable way the guest was treated, and congratulates the recipient for a deed well done. Sakuden then writes that he is sending some matsutake mushrooms that he collected in the Sagano Hills (of Kyoto). The letter lacks a date or any hint of one, but the sober appearance of the hand suggests that it was written in Sakuden’s senior years, probably in his 70s or 80s. Sakuden lived to the unusual old age of 89.
御成御仕合不始于今御手栖共難述書中候御満足奉察候此松茸従嵯峨参候とて噂申候此書付新を一種ニ進之候一咲恐惶謹言九月三日策傳（花押）
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