Masachika Asukai

Japanese: 飛鳥井雅親 - あすかい・まさちか

Year of death: Entoku 2.12.22 (1491.1.31)
Year of birth: 1417
A nobleman in the late Muromachi period. His father was Gon Chunagon Masayo. In 1448, he was promoted to the rank of non-councillor, Jushi-sanmi, and in 1466, he was promoted to Gon Dainagon. In 1473, he became a monk and took the Buddhist name Eiga. The Asukai family had been known for generations as a family of waka poetry and kemari, and Masachika was taught by his father from an early age and showed talent in waka poetry. In 1465, Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado ordered him to compile an imperial anthology, but the Onin War brought the project to a halt. He taught waka poetry and kemari to the Muromachi Shogunate's Ashikaga Yoshimasa and Yoshihisa, and was active at the center of the poetry world in the Bunmei and Chokyo periods as a waka instructor to nobles and local daimyo. He was also skilled in calligraphy, and his style was called the Eiga school. His family anthology includes the Asukai Masachika Collection. <References> Inoue Muneo, "Study on the History of the Medieval Poetry World - The Muromachi Period"

(Masaaki Komori)

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Japanese:

没年：延徳2.12.22(1491.1.31)
生年：応永24(1417)
室町後期の公卿。父は権中納言雅世。文安5(1448)年,非参議従三位となり,以降累進して文正1(1466)年権大納言。文明5(1473)年に出家,法名栄雅。飛鳥井家は代々,和歌,蹴鞠の家として知られ,雅親も早くから父の指導を受け,和歌に才能を発揮した。寛正6(1465)年,後土御門天皇から勅撰集編纂の命が下ったが,応仁の乱によって中絶。室町幕府将軍足利義政,義尚に和歌,蹴鞠を伝授する一方,公家や地方大名の歌道師範として文明・長享期歌壇の中心として活躍。書も巧みで栄雅流と呼ばれる。家集に『飛鳥井雅親集』がある。<参考文献>井上宗雄『中世歌壇史の研究―室町後期』

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