- Artist
静寛院宮（和宮 親子内親王）
- Title
- 御書状 橋本少将宛 慶応四年正月二十日LETTER Addressed to HASHIMOTO Shosho January 20, Keio 4
- Year
- 1868
- Medium
- 紙本墨書Ink on paper
- Dimensions/duration
- 16.2×151.4㎝, 1
- Collection
- 海の見える杜美術館Umi-Mori Art Museum
- Notes
- 仁孝天皇第八皇女。有栖川宮熾仁親王と婚約したが、政治に翻弄され、文久元年（一八六一）十四代将軍家茂へ降嫁となる。翌年婚儀が行われたが、わずか四年後の慶応二年（一八六六）七月死別。同年十二月薙髪して静寛院と称した。<BR/> 本状は、慶応四年（一八六八）正月、薩摩・長州藩兵側に錦旗が与えられ、徳川幕府が朝敵となったことを受けて、東海道先鋒総督兼鎮撫使の橋本実梁に宛てたもの。内容は、「当家朝敵の汚名を残」すことは「実ニ残念」。「汚名を雪」ぐことを私の命に代えて願います。「官軍差下され御取つふし」するならば「覚悟いたし」ます。命は惜しくない・・・。<BR/> 十六歳で輿入れし、二十歳で夫と死別。命がけで嫁ぎ先を守る、二十二歳の若き決意が墨蹟から伝わってくる。この書状以外に、明治天皇宛他の嘆願の書状が残されている。<BR/>(『名筆へのいざない―深遠なる書の世界―』海の見える杜美術館２０１２ 解説より)Eighth daughter of Emperor Niko. She was betrothed to Prince Chikuhito Arisugawa, but politics played havoc with her marriage, and in 1861 she was given in marriage to the 14th Shogun, Iemochi. The following year, the marriage ceremony took place, but she died only four years later in July 1866. In December of the same year, she reaped her hair and assumed the name Shizukan-in. <BR/> This letter was addressed to Hashimoto Saneriyo, Governor-General of Tokaido Spearhead and Envoy to the Tokugawa Shogunate, in response to the fact that the Tokugawa Shogunate had become the enemy of the Satsuma and Choshu domain soldiers who were given Nishikibata in the first month of Keio 4 (1868). The letter was addressed to Hashimoto Sanryo, Governor-General of the Tokugawa Shogunate and an envoy to the Tokugawa Shogunate. I wish at the cost of my own life to 'clear the stigma. If the government forces are sent down to take away our name, I am prepared to do so. I will not spare my life. <BR/> She married at the age of 16 and lost her husband at the age of 20. Her young determination to protect her bride-to-be at the risk of her own life is conveyed in the ink seki. In addition to this letter, there are other letters of petition addressed to the Emperor Meiji. <BR/>(From the commentary of "An Invitation to the Master Calligrapher: The Profound World of Calligraphy," Umi no Mieru Mori Art Museum 2012)
- Data extracted from Bunka Isan Dētabēsu (Cultural Heritage Database) by Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō). Extracted January 21, 2022.
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