Munetsugu Oguri - Oguri Soukei

Japanese: 小栗宗継 - おぐり・そうけい

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A painter from the mid-Muromachi period. Son of Oguri Sotan. Oguri was his secular surname, and Sotsugu was his Buddhist name after he became a monk. It is known from the Inryoken Nikki that he had close ties with Kamesen Shusho, the head of Inryoken at Shokoku-ji Temple. In 1488, he returned to secular life in Sakai, and thereafter appears in historical documents under the names of Gessen (bo) and Kitabo (Kitabo). His unique way of moving between monk and layman is worthy of attention. There are many records of his paintings, with 13 examples in the Inryoken Nikki, and he was busy creating sliding screen paintings for the Shinomiya residence, Mikage-ma, Yotoku-in (all 1490), Shosen-ken (1491), and Muto-ryo (1492), among others. Of these, the sliding screen paintings at Yotokuin were completed by completing works begun by his father Sotan, and the remaining paintings that remain are "Reeds and Geese," "Koto, Go, Painting and Calligraphy," and "Landscape" (all in the possession of the Kyoto National Museum). Although they have been altered considerably in later generations, they are valuable as the only confirmed works from the Oguri school. In addition, recent research has shown that the works with the signatures and seals "Shamo" and "Hougai" are highly likely to have been painted by Sotsugu. Furthermore, the Inryoken Diary also states that Sotsugu compounded medicines and provided medical treatment. <References> Imaizumi Yoshio, "Rakuda" (Cultural History of Language, Middle Ages 4), Kageki Hideo, "The Painter-Monk Gessen Sotsugu and His Surroundings" (Collection of Research Papers from Soai University, Vol. 1)

(Yuji Yamashita)

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

Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
室町中期の画家。小栗宗湛の子。小栗は俗姓,宗継は出家後の法諱。相国寺蔭凉軒主亀泉集証と密接な交渉があったことが『蔭凉軒日録』により知られる。長享2(1488)年,堺において還俗し,以後月船(坊),北坊(喜多坊)の名で史料に登場する。僧俗の間を行き来する特異な在り方が注目される。画作の記録はかなり多く,『蔭凉軒日録』には13例を数え,四宮宅,御影間,養徳院(以上1490),松泉軒(1491),武藤寮(1492)などの障壁画制作に多忙であった。このうち,養徳院襖絵は父宗湛が描きかけていたものを補作したもので,「芦雁図」「琴棋書画図」「山水図」(すべて京都国立博物館蔵)が現存する。後世かなり改変されているが,小栗派の唯一の確証ある作品として貴重である。このほか,近年の研究によれば,「遮莫」「方外」の落款,印章を伴う作品は宗継筆である可能性が高い。なお『蔭凉軒日録』には,宗継が薬剤を調合し,診療をしたともある。<参考文献>今泉淑夫「落堕」(『ことばの文化史』中世4),蔭木英雄「画僧月船宗継とその周辺」(『相愛大学研究論集』1巻)

(山下裕二)

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