- 著者
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水野 裕史
- 雑誌
- 美術研究 = The bijutsu kenkiu : the journal of art studies
- 巻号頁・発行日
- no.428, pp.1-18, 2019-09-10
This article considers the previously only partially deciphered biography of Sesson Shûkei (16th century) through historical materials related to two Rinzai sect Genjû school priests with whom Sesson interacted. The Rinzai sect Genjû school is theologically descended from Zhongfeng Mingben of the Chinese Linji (Rinzai) sect Yangqi (Yôgi) school. The Genjû school developed throughout the Kantô region during Japan's late medieval period and is known to have been highly influential at the time. And indeed, the development of the Genjû school was not unrelated to ink painting in the Kantô region. In particular, Barbara Ford has offered the interpretation that Sesson Shûkei modeled himself after Fukuan Sôki (1280-1358) and in effect followed in his footsteps. Evidence supporting this can be found in the Sesson works remaining at Jisôji in Aizu and Fukujûji in Miharu, both temples founded by Sôki. Sôki was born in Hitachi province, and like Sesson, came from the powerful Satake clan. Ford has indicated that Sesson's reverence for Sôki led him to Aizu. After these insightful beginnings research has not advanced on the connection between Sesson and the Genjû school. This article reexamines Sesson's interactions with the Genjû school as seen in the records of two Zen priests, Keishô Shûzui and Daichû Sôshin, both of whom were based at Hôunji (present-day Tsuchiura, Ibaraki prefecture), a temple founded by Sôki that was the base of the Genjû school. The Hôunji zakki binran (Hôunji) records compilation, bearing a colophon dated 1722 (Kyôhô 7), was assembled by Shirin Oku, the 17th abbot of Hôunji who feared the dispersal of the Hôunji documents. This compilation includes a record of Keishô Shûzui's visit to Hôunji and his recitation of poems in Hôunji's abbot's residence Eikôin. The connection between Keishô Shûzui and Sesson is known from Shûzui's 1555 (Tenbun 24) inscription on Sesson's Myna Bird and other materials, but the nature of their connection had not yet been determined. Ninsai rakusui dôjin kôgô, today in the Ishikawa Takeyoshi Memorial Library, Tokyo, is the only known collection of sayings by Keishô Shûzui. This volume records that he visited Shôjôji around the early Tenbun era. Shôjôji is the same temple that Sesson entered as a child. And while previously it had been thought that Sesson's interactions with Keishô Shûzui were in the Kamakura area from 1550 (Tenbun 19) onwards, we can now indicate that these interactions began in the early Tenbun era at Shôjôji in Hitachi province. In 1512 (Eishô 9) Daichû Sôshin, who was born in the domain of the Hitachi province Oda family, entered the Sôgetsuin (a sub-temple of Hôunji), and was named head priest of Kôtokuji in Aizu in the first month of 1567 (Eiroku 10). Daichû Sôshin's book of aphorisms, the Daichû washô goroku (Dairyûji, Chiba) states that a painter named Sôkansai (相鑑斎) visited Daichû in Aizu in the 12th month of 1567, and that this Sôkansai had also been born in Hitachi province. According to Ogawa Tomoji's research, around 1567 Sesson was going back and forth between Miharu and Aizu. From these factors we could suggest the possibility that Sesson interacted with Daichû, whose circle of connections included Sôkansai and the Genjû school lineage. Previous research on Sesson's biography had found it difficult to connect the dots of his known interactions. The records of these two Zen priests allow us to surmise Sesson's interactions with painters Baiinsai, Senka and Sôkansai and indicate that their connections were based on the Genjû school network.