Fujiwara no Ifusa - This bunch of Fujiwara

Japanese: 藤原伊房 - ふじわらのこれふさ

Year of death: September 16, 1096 (October 4, 1096)
Year of birth: 1030
A nobleman and calligrapher in the late Heian period. He was the son of Yukitsune and the grandson of Yukinari, one of the three great priests. He was appointed Gon Chunagon, Dazai Gonsouki, and Shonii, but was demoted and suspended from his post for being involved in smuggling with Khitan during his term as Dazai Gonsouki. He was also asked by Emperor Shirakawa to make a copy of the imperial anthology Goshui Wakashu, but was angry that only one of his own waka poems was included, and refused to make a copy. The only surviving signed calligraphy by Ifusa is the "self-written request" (among the Todaiji documents), but recent research has led to the conclusion that volumes 3 and 7 of the "Maedahon Hokuzansho," "Ai-shihon Manyoshu," "Jugoban Uta-awase," and several other vestiges of calligraphy are believed to be his own. His unique style of calligraphy, elegant and full of spirit, is unique in contrast to the elegant ancient calligraphy that is unique to the Heian period.

(Minoru Furuya)

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

Japanese:

没年：永長1.9.16(1096.10.4)
生年：長元3(1030)
平安後期の公卿,能書。行経の子,三跡のひとり行成の孫。権中納言・大宰権帥・正二位となるが,大宰権帥在任中に契丹との密貿易に関与したため降位停職された。また,白河天皇の下命による勅選集『後拾遺和歌集』の奏覧本の清書を依頼されたが,自作の和歌が1首しか入集していないのに立腹し,清書を断ったなどのエピソードは有名である。現存する署名のある伊房の書は「自筆請文」(東大寺文書のうち)のみであるが,近年の研究成果によって,「前田本北山抄」巻第3・7はじめ,「藍紙本万葉集」「十五番歌合」ほか数種の遺墨がその自筆と推定されている。秀麗にして気迫に満ちた個性的な書風で,平安独特の優美な古筆とは対照的でユニークな存在である。

(古谷稔)

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