Hoitsu Sakai (1761-1829), the third master of "Rinpa" following Sodatsu and Korin. Many people know that his tomb, also known as the ancestor of Edo Rinpa, is located at Honganji Temple in Tsukiji. In 1797 (1797), under the master of Kyoto Nishi Honganji Temple, who descended to Edo, he earned his home at Tsukiji Honganji Temple. But this is not the only connection between Huichi and Chuo-ku.
Tadanori Sakai (Tadanori Sakai) was born in 1761 at the Sakai family annex in Kandaogawamachi as the second son of the Gagaku head family, Himeji feudal lord, and grew up in the upper house in front of Ote-mon gate, Edo Castle. Nakayashiki straddles the current Nihonbashi Ningyocho 1-chome and Nihonbashi Kakigaracho 1-chome on the east side of Inaribori, crossing Shin-ohashi-dori St. from Nihonbashi Elementary School, just before Nihonbashihakozakicho, and around the Metropolitan Expressway. It was quite wide. (It seems that this place became the residence of Saigo Takamori after the Meiji Restoration.)
He demonstrated a unique talent not only in paintings but also in the literary world such as haikai and Kyoka, but he used the issue of "Hakozaki Funamori" in the collection of phrases from the Nakayashiki era, "The Sound of Kaji" . Speaking of Huichi's residence, Negishi's "Ugean", which produced a fulfilling work in his later years, is famous, but now there was a time when he was "Chuo Kumin".
This year is just 250 years from 1761 when he was born. At the beginning of this year, there were related art exhibitions at the Idemitsu Museum of Arts and the Hatakeyama Memorial Hall, but since summer, a large-scale retrospective exhibition featuring representative works such as "The 250th Anniversary of Birth of Hoitsu Sakai and Edo Rinpa" will be held around Himeji, Chiba and Kyoto. Unfortunately, there is no event in Tokyo, but in the Tokyo metropolitan area, it will be held at the Chiba City Museum of Art from October 10 to November 13. Taro Iyo also visits the grave of Tsukiji and then goes to Chiba to enjoy the essence and elegance of Huichi.
[Photo] Shin-ohashi-dori St., which crosses the center of the Sakai family Nakayashiki site.
[In the photo] Tsukiji Honganji's tomb
[Lower photo] stamp (1970) Representative work "Natsu Akikusa Figure Screen" (part)
