Masatora Ooae

Japanese: 大饗正虎 - おおあえ・まさとら

Year of death: 11th January 1596 (9th February 1596)
Year of birth: Eisho 17 (1520)
A calligrapher from the Azuchi-Momoyama period. He went by the name Kusunoki Chokan. He was the son of Kusunoki Shigetaka and a descendant of Kusunoki Masamori, the grandson of Kusunoki Masanori. In 1536 (Tenbun 5), he served the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu and took the name Masatora. Emperor Ogimachi pardoned the Kusunoki clan as enemies of the court, and he was appointed Junior Fourth Rank Upper and Kawachi no Kami (Kusunoki Family Tree). He later became a close aide to Oda Nobunaga. He became a right-hand man, and after the Honnoji Incident, he became a right-hand man for Hashiba (Toyotomi) Hideyoshi. He inherited the Sesonji school of calligraphy, learned the style of Iio Tsunefusa, and is considered a model for the times. In 1588 (Tensho 16), when Emperor Goyozei visited Jurakudai, he presented a clean copy of Jurakudai Gyokouki (Record of a Visit to Jurakudai) written by Hideyoshi's courtier Omura Yuki to the Emperor. Masatora wrote the Kyushu Jindo no Ki, a record of Hideyoshi's attack on Satsuma. In his later years, he became a monk and lived in Rokujo Daiwabo in Kyoto.

(Akira Imaya)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：慶長1.1.11(1596.2.9)
生年：永正17(1520)
安土桃山時代の書家。楠長諳と号す。楠木成隆の子。楠木正儀の孫正盛の末裔と称す。天文5(1536)年将軍足利義晴に出仕し正虎と名乗る。正親町天皇より楠木一族の朝敵の勅免を受け,従四位上,河内守に叙任(『楠氏系図』)。のち織田信長の側近。右筆となり,本能寺の変後は羽柴(豊臣)秀吉の右筆となる。書は世尊寺流を伝え,飯尾常房の遺風を学び,当代の模範とされる。天正16(1588)年,後陽成天皇の聚楽第行幸に際し,秀吉の御伽衆大村由己が著した『聚楽第行幸記』を清書して天皇に献上した。秀吉の薩摩攻めの記録『九州陣道の記』は正虎の著作。晩年は出家して京都六条大輪坊に住す。

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