From Tou Tsune

Japanese: 東常縁 - とう・つねより

Year of death: around Bunmei 16 (1484)
Year of birth: Unknown. A military commander and poet of the Muromachi period. Son of Shimotsuke no Kami Masuyuki. His Buddhist name was Soden. He was also called Higashinoshu. He was adopted by his half-brother Ujikazu and inherited the Azuma family, reaching the rank of Shimotsuke no Kami with the rank of Junior Fifth Rank. From 1449 (Houtoku 1), he received instruction in waka poetry from Takataka and Seigan Masatsugu of the Nijo school, and in the following year, he formally became Takataka's pupil. In 1455 (Kōshō 1), as turmoil broke out in the Kanto region, he was ordered by the Muromachi shogunate to travel east and fight in various places. His subsequent movements are unknown for some time, but in September 1468 (Onin 2), when the Azuma family's territory of Gujo in Mino Province was embezzled by Saito Myōchō, the deputy governor of Mino Province, he composed a lamentative poem in Musashi Province: "Although I am still alive, I have seen such a world, and I long for the past of people." According to the Kamakura Daisoshi, this poem was the catalyst for an exchange of waka poems between Tsunechika and Myotsubaki in the following year (1469), which led to Tsunechika travelling to Kyoto and the return of his estate. In the same year, he lectured Iio Sogi twice on the Kokin Wakashu, and later passed on his theories about the Kokin Wakashu to Sogi, becoming the founder of the Kokin Denju tradition. His theories are known from the Kokin Wakashu Ryodo Monsho and other sources. As a waka scholar, he also left behind works such as the waka study book Higashinoshu Monsho and the commentaries Shin Kokin Wakashu Monsho and Higashinoshu Shitsubi. His family anthology Tsunechika contains many simple waka poems typical of Nijo school poets, such as "The sound of the waves rubbing against the mountains and rocks is clear as the May rains fall on the high mountains." <References> Kawamura Sadayoshi, "Tojoen," Inoue Muneo, "Revised New Edition: Research on the History of the Medieval Poetry World/Early Muromachi Period"

(Mutsumi Kato)

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

Japanese:

没年：文明16頃(1484)
生年：生年不詳
室町時代の武将,歌人。下野守益之の子。法号は素伝。東野州とも呼ばれた。異母兄の氏数の養子となって東家を嗣ぎ,従五位下下野守に至る。宝徳1(1449)年から,二条派の尭孝や,清巌正徹に和歌の指導を受け,翌2年に尭孝に正式に入門。康正1(1455)年関東に騒乱が生じたため,室町幕府の命によって東下,諸所を転戦した。その後の動向はしばらく不明だが,応仁2(1468)年9月,東家の領地美濃国郡上が美濃守護代斎藤妙椿により横領された際には,武蔵国にあり,「あるがうちにかかる世をしも見たりけり人の昔のなほも恋しき」という嘆きの歌を詠じた。この歌がきっかけになって,翌文明1(1469)年常縁と妙椿の間に和歌の贈答が行われ,常縁が上京,所領が返還されるに至ったと『鎌倉大草紙』は伝える。同3年には2度にわたって飯尾宗祇に『古今和歌集』を講義,その後も『古今和歌集』に関する説を宗祇に伝え,古今伝授の創始者となった。その所説は,『古今和歌集両度聞書』などによって知られる。歌学者としては,ほかに歌学書『東野州聞書』,注釈書『新古今和歌集聞書』『東野州拾唾』などの著作を残している。また,家集『常縁集』は,「山川や岩こす波の音しるく晴れぬ高嶺の五月雨のころ」のように,二条派の歌人らしい平明な和歌を多く収めている。<参考文献>河村定芳『東常縁』,井上宗雄『改定新版中世歌壇史の研究/室町前期』

(加藤睦)

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