Letter by Tokugawa Hidetada
- Person
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作者徳川秀忠
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- トクガワヒデ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-001698-0000
- 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 Gesture Font Art Rectangle
Tokugawa Hidetada (1578-1632) was Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)’s third son, who later became the second shogun, the head military leader, of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a military government, when his father abdicated in 1605. At that time, the 28-year-old Hidetada was appointed Minister of the Interior, as well as shogun. In 1614, he was promoted to Minister of the Right and, then in 1625, to Prime Minister. Hidetada’s posthumous honorary name is Taitoku-In.In addition to his spectacular political career, Hidetada was devoted to learning and was noted for his intellectual pursuits. He studied the art of tea under Furuta Oribe (1543-1615), and according to the Genealogy of Calligraphy, Hidetada’s name appears under the Sogen School.The characters that make up the addressee’s name in this correspondence can be read as “Seitoku-In”, who was Tokugawa Ieyasu’s first daughter, Princess Kame (1560-1625). In 1576, the then 17-year-old princess was betrothed to Okudaira Nobumasa (1555-1615), the Lord of Shinshiro Castle, in Mikawa Province (today’s Aichi Pref.). She later bore four sons and one daughter. When Nobumasa died in 1615, Kame became a nun and adopted the Buddhist name of Seitoku-In at age 56, before she died herself in 1625.From this letter, we learn that Seitoku-In had sent Hidetada a casual kimono for daily wear as a year-end gift. Hidetada, then in his 40s, in essence thanks his elder sister for the gift.
としのくれの祝儀としてこそて一かさねをくり給候まことにいく久しくと祝入まいらせ候なをかさねて申入候へく候めてたくかしくせいとく院とのひて忠申給へ
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