著者

柿木原 くみ

出版者

書学書道史学会

雑誌

書学書道史研究 (ISSN:18832784)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2009, no.19, pp.9-22, 2009 (Released:2012-02-29)

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The Chinese seal engraver Qian Shoutie 銭痩鉄 met in Shanghai the Japanese painter Hashimoto Kansetsu 橋本関雪, who invited him to his home in Kyoto, where Qian Shoutie resided for a time, carving seals for Kansetsu and his acquaintances and gaining a good reputation and trust among Japanese men of culture. Around the same time, the popular Japanese author Tanizaki Jun'ichiro 谷崎潤一郎 had asked a friend living in Shanghai to have an address seal and name seal made for him. The engraver commissioned by Tanizaki's friend was Qian Shoutie, and upon receiving the seals, Tanizaki extended his interests to the field of seal engraving. Tanizaki amused himself in the miniature world of seals and came into contact with a great many seal engravers.  Donald Keene has written of Tanizaki's works that they should be savoured in their individually published editions rather than in the form of his collected works. This is because Tanizaki's almost obsessive passion was poured into every aspect of the content and binding of his works.   In this article, basing myself on the association between the three artists Hashimoto, Qian Shoutie and Tanizaki and the inner depth of this association, I inquire into the engraver of the author's seals on the colophons of first editions of Tanizaki's works, and I also consider the seals used by Tanizaki for his personal use.