建部凌岱展（板橋区立美術館） Ryotai Takebe (Itabashi Art Museum)

 

建部凌岱のことはこれまで全く知らなかった。

弘前藩の家老の家に生まれながら、故あって故郷を離れ、俳諧で名を為しながら、その後は絵師、随筆画、読み本作家、国学者として多方面に足跡を残した。

絵においては、彭城百川に俳画を学び、中津藩の支援を受けて長崎に留学して熊斐に南画を学び、または清から日本に渡った絵師から山水画を学んだ。

そうした様々なジャンルの絵が並んでいたが、一人の絵師が描いたとは思えないほど、全く技法がバラバラだった。

木村蒹葭堂に見せてもらったという、明代末の山水画帖を描き写したという画帖も展示されていた。

『本朝水滸伝』という読み本を書いたが、それは後に曲亭馬琴が読み本の祖とするほど大きな影響を与えた。

国学者としては、賀茂真淵の門下となり、京都や名古屋で『万葉集』や『伊勢物語』の講義を行ったという。

建部凌岱という人物は、江戸時代の黄金期と言える18世紀を、まるで体現しているかのような、実に興味深い人物だと感じた。

I had never known about Ryotai Tatebe.

Born in the family of the chief retainer of the Hirosaki Domain, he left his hometown and made a name for himself in haiku.

In painting, he studied haiga from Sakaki Hyakusen, studied in Nagasaki with the support of the Nakatsu domain, studied Nanga from Yuhi, or learned landscape picture from a painter who traveled from Qing to Japan.

Pictures of various genres were lined up, but the techniques were so different that I couldn't believe they were drawn by a single artist.

There was also an exhibition of a painting of a landscape painting at the end of the Meiji era, which he was shown by Kimura Kenkado.

He wrote a reading book called "Honcho Suikoden", which had such a great influence that Takizawa Bakin later became the ancestor of the reading book.

As a national scholar, he became a member of Kamo no Mabuchi and gave lectures on "Manyoshu" and "Ise Monogatari" in Kyoto and Nagoya.

I felt that the person named Ayato Tatebe was a really interesting person as if he embodied the 18th century, which can be said to be the golden age of the Edo period.