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surviving panels, originally installed be- poetry), calligraphy, tea, incense apprecia- lifelong devout Buddhist and avid student
hind the emperor's seat, represent thirty- tion, and flower arrangement. Striving for of Zen, in 1651 he took the tonsure and
two Chinese historical luminaries, a renaissance of cultural activities, he set adopted the Buddhist name Enjô. He be-
including famous ministers up to and dur- for the members of the court special days came a patron and student of many cul-
ing the Tang Dynasty. SY for scholarly pursuits and published, in tured Zen monks, most particularly
1621, Kôchô Ruien, a Japanese edition of Takuan Sôhô (cat. 20), who shared his an-
19 The emperor Go-Mizunoo the mid-twelfth-century Chinese Huang- ger at shogunal interference with imperial
Gen'yó Shónin (1634-1727) chao Leiyuan (Classified quotations of and clerical prerogatives.
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk works by courtly scholars). Endowed with Two portraits of the emperor Go-
100.6 x 55.8 (395/8 x 22) artistic talent, he painted and also de- Mizunoo were painted during his lifetime.
Edo period, no earlier than 1680 signed the garden for the Shugakuin De- One, in Hanjuin, Kyoto, painted by Kano
tached Palace in northeastern Kyoto. Tan'yu (1602-1674), bears an inscribed
Unryuin, Kyoto Though he was an intelligent and ca- waka composed by the emperor himself.
The emperor Go-Mizunoo (1596-1680), pable man Go-Mizunoo as emperor en- The other, in Sennyüji, also in Kyoto, has
the third son of the emperor Go-Yozei dured repeated frustrations and two Japanese poems inscribed and dated
(cat. 18), acceded to the throne in 1611 and humiliations at the hands of Tokugawa to the nineteenth day of the second
in 1620 married a daughter of Tokugawa leyasu and Hidetada (particularly Hide- month, 1673. The portrait exhibited here,
Hidetada (1578-1631), the second shogun. tada), who were determined to assert their painted after Go-Mizunoo's death, is
Go-MizunoQ had a penchant for scholar- authority over all spheres of Japanese life. based on these precedents.
ship and was versed in waka (Japanese po- After one too many heavy-handed sho- This portrait was painted by Go-
etry), renga (linked verse), kanshi (Chinese gunal interventions, Go-Mizunoo regis- Mizunoo's granddaughter, Gen'yô, a Zen
tered his disgust by abdicating in 1629. A

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