Awataguchi style

...Its founder was Prince Sonen, whose father was Emperor Fushimi, a skilled calligrapher. The name comes from the fact that the prince lived at Shoren-in Temple, a temple in Awataguchi, Kyoto, and it is also called the Awataguchi school or the Sonen school. The prince created a new and excellent style of calligraphy that added a new touch of Zhang Jizhi from the Song dynasty in China to the ancient style of the Sesonji school, but the descendants of the school came to be based exclusively on the Hojun style, which suited the tastes of the time and therefore also became vulgar. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Awataguchi-ryu" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…能書家の伏見天皇を父とする尊円親王を祖とする。親王が京都粟田口の門跡寺院青蓮院に住したのでこの名があり，粟田口流，尊円流とも呼ばれる。親王は世尊寺流の上代様に新しく中国宋代の張即之の強さを加えた秀れた書風を生み出したが，末流はもっぱら豊潤を宗とするようになって世の好みに合い，したがってまた卑俗にもなった。…

※「粟田口流」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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