Sesonji-ryu

It is a school of calligraphy. Its founder was Fujiwara no Yukinari, one of the "Three Great Masters" who perfected the Japanese style. The name comes from the fact that Yukinari, who dominated the world of calligraphy at the Imperial Court at the time, renovated his residence in Momozono and built a temple, and later, his eighth-generation descendant Yukiyoshi took the name of his family. The lineage continued into the late Muromachi period, with (1) Yukinari, (2) Yukitsune, (3) Korefusa, (4) Sadazane, (5) Sadanobu, (6) Koreyuki, (7) Koretsune, (8) Gyōyoshi, (9) Tsunetomo, (10) Tsunetada, (11) Yukifusa, (12) Yukitada, (13) Yukitada, (14) Yukitoshi, (15) Yukitoyo, (16) Koretada, and (17) Yukisue. Until the 6th or 7th generation, the school maintained its reputation as a prestigious school of calligraphy and maintained a conservative, mainstream position, but after the second half of the 12th century, it lost its freshness and fell into a formal style of calligraphy due to its excessive adherence to the traditions of Yukinari.

[Mitsuharu Kanzaki]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

書道の流派の一つ。和様の完成者で「三蹟(さんせき)」の一人藤原行成(ゆきなり)を祖とする。名称の由来は、当時、宮廷書道界を支配していた行成が、桃園(ももぞの)の邸を改築して建立した寺名を、後世、8代目の子孫行能(ゆきよし)が家名としたことに始まる。一系は、(1)行成、(2)行経(ゆきつね)、(3)伊房(これふさ)、(4)定実(さだざね)、(5)定信(さだのぶ)、(6)伊行(これゆき)、(7)伊経(これつね)、(8)行能、(9)経朝(つねとも)、(10)経尹(つねただ)、(11)行房(ゆきふさ)、(12)行尹(ゆきただ)、(13)行忠(ゆきただ)、(14)行俊(ゆきとし)、(15)行豊(ゆきとよ)、(16)伊忠(これただ)、(17)行季(ゆきすえ)と、室町時代後期まで続いた。6、7代目あたりまでは書道の名門としての命脈を支え、保守本流的立場を保ち続けたが、行成の伝統を墨守するあまり、12世紀後半以降は新鮮さを失い、形式的な書風に堕した。

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