Letter by Sakurai Motosuke
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作者桜井基佐
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- サクライモトスケヒツショジョウ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002451-0000
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- 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 Font Paper Writing Letter
Sakurai Motosuke (year of birth and death unknown) was a waka and renga (linked verse) poet of the mid-Muromachi Period. Later, he entered priesthood and took up the Buddhist name of Eisen. About Motosuke’s birthplace, theories claim it to be either in the areas of Shimousa (today’s Chiba Prefecture), Settsu (today’s Osaka), or Ecchu (today’s Toyama Prefecture). In his later years, Motosuke lived in Ohara, Kyoto, and was an active and well-known renga poet during the Bunmei and Meio years from 1469 to 1501. In 1482, he hosted a particularly famous renga composition party of Sangin Hyakuin (also called Ohara Sangin; A Poem of One Hundred Links by Three Poets), in which participated Iio Sogi and Socho. Other literary works left behind by Motosuke include the Motosuke Collection (a collection of renga) and Sakurai Motosuke Collection (a collection of waka poems).In this letter, Motosuke reveals that he had received a gift of rice cakes for the Hassaku Festival, a celebration of the new harvest that originally started among farmers and that spread to the aristocracy as a time for exchanging gifts. He indicates he enjoyed the sweet rice cakes very much while drinking a lot of sake and was now suffering from a hangover. In appreciation of the gift, he wrote a poem: “The box of rice cakes of the color of bush clover and sake made me lie down with a hangover in the Miyake field, where new harvests are stored.” Motosuke asks the recipient of the letter to also reply with a poem. Perhaps it was addressed to one of his friends in the literary circles.
尚以御返哥承たく候かしく八朔之御祝儀として昨日者わか衆達御光臨殊に種々御念入たる重の内折から萩の花色数々もちゐ賞翫無他候尚以名酒二日酔ノ餘に萩の花の色をもちゐと盃と二日酔ふすみやけのゝはら中秋二日基佐（花押）
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