Letter by Kanamori Sowa
- Person
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作者金森宗和
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- カナモリソウワヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000650-0000
- 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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- Wood Font Pattern Monochrome Metal
Kanamori Sowa (1584-1656) was a tea connoisseur of the early Edo Period. He was the first-born son ofKanamori Arishige (1558-1615), the Lord of Takayama Castle in Hida (today’s Nagano Prefecture), but was disinherited by his father in 1614, when he was 31 years old. As a result, he left his father and moved to Kyoto to live with his mother. There, he visited Bishop Join Denso of Daitokuji Temple for Zen training and eventually took the tonsure, adopting the Buddhist name of Sowa. His training in sado later blossomed, resulting in the establishment of the Sowa School, which offered a new artistic expression and appreciation of the art of tea. His friends included tea celebrities of the era, such as Konoe Nobuhiro (1599-1649), Ichijo Akiyoshi (1605-72), Kobori Enshu (1579-1647) and Katagiri Sekishu (1605-73). The Sowa School was known for grace and elegance and dubbed “princess-like Sowa,” thus attracting many followers among the aristocracy. The exhibited letter is a cover letter that accompanied a small gourd-shaped flower vase that Sowa sent to a Hanjuan, perhaps Sowa’s friend in tea circles. In the letter, Sowa says he is not able to accompany Hanjuan on the trip to the country as invited and adds that he is getting weak from old age. Traces of handwriting show that this letter was indeed written in Sowa’s old age. The letter goes on to describe how the flower vase would be “useful enough for traveling,” so it could have been a small, portable one.
任便捧一書候承申候へは近日いなかへ御遊山ニ御越と申候御うらやましき事候長閑候者御供もいたすへく候を老人此さむさいたミ申候而ならす候千々万々無念候然ハいつそやのふくへ花入進之候御旅之御用にも立候ハんや恐惶謹言正十七日（花押）金森半寿庵様宗和
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