Letter by Konoe Nobutada
- Person
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作者近衛信尹
- Date
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制作年 AD16
- Title
- コノエノブタダヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000177-0000
- 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 Monochrome Art
Konoe Nobutada (1565-1614) was a court official who lived during the Momoyama Period. He was born into nobility as the legitimate first son of Senior Regent Konoe Sakihisa (1536-1612). His initiation rite was held in 1577 when he turned 13, with Lord Oda Nobunaga assuming the honorary role of placing the headgear. Nobunaga gave the boy a character from his own name, and thereafter Nobutada was called Nobumoto, which was later changed to Nobusuke. Nobusuke was only 21 when he was appointed Minister of the Left, but he resigned from this office in January 1592 at age 28. In December of the same year, he planned to sail to the Korean Peninsula to fight in the Battle of Bunroku and went as far down as Nagoya, in Hizen (today’s Saga Pref.). Nobutada later incurred the displeasure of Emperor Goyozei due to a rivalry Nobutada had with Regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he was exiled to Bonotsu in Satsuma (today’s Kagoshima Pref.) in 1594. Ever since the end of the Heian Period, Satsuma had been Konoe family property, so he was received warmly by Lord Shimazu, the ruler of Satsuma. Nobutada spent his time in exile completely absorbed in art, as well as waka and renga composing and chanoyu tea ceremony. In 1596, Nobutada was pardoned and allowed to return to Kyoto; thereupon, he assumed the name Nobutada, by which he is traditionally known. In 1601, he was reinstituted as Minister of the Left and was promoted to Regent and head of the family in 1605. He died at age 50 on November 25, 1614. The posthumous Buddhist name Sanmyaku-In was bestowed upon him.Nobutada was thoroughly familiar with the art of waka, calligraphy and painting. In calligraphy, he was hailed as one of the ‘Three Brushes of the Kan-ei Era’, the other two being Hon-ami Koetsu and Shokado Shojo. According to this letter, Nobutada had borrowed, through one of the court ladies, a document that was perhaps a record of imperial lineage. The addressee may be somebody who mediated the affair. Actually, the court lady mentioned is Nobutada’s sister Sakiko, who was 11 years his junior. Sakiko had become Emperor Goyozei’s concubine in December 1586.The overall impression of the letter suggests it was written in Nobutada’s later years, perhaps in his late 40s.
尊札辱候三右衛門尉ニ即致対面候兼又女御を以被見候吉田書物閑覧仕候所詮神武より今日迄者人代にて相済事候御詠昔や神のトなをり尤に存候つるかしく十日［封］主膳正殿信尹
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