@article{oai:tobunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006862,
 author = {田村, 悦子 and Tamura, Etsuko},
 issue = {214},
 journal = {美術研究, The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {There are many calligraphic writings which are attributed, either with substantial proof or by mere tradition, to the famous priest-poet and traveller Saigyō (alias En-i, 1118–1190). Recently I discovered a letter signed En-i, written in kana (Japanese syllabaries), in the Imperial Collection at the Kyoto Imperial Palace, which has proved to be a basic material concerning the anthologies Mimosusogawa and Miyagawa, collections of his poems by his own selection in the form of records of poetry contests. This letter written when Saigyō was between seventy and seventy-two years old, describing the circumstances how the two anthologies were edited, is an important source of information also for students on the history of Japanese literature. The present article introduces the letter just mentioned and proceeds, based upon it, to re-examination of two other writings which have been regarded by senior scholars as authentic examples of Saigyō's handwriting, namely the letter signed En-i owned by the Kongōbu-ji Temple at Kōya, Wakayama and the “En-i Kaishi” included in a group of kaishi (poems written on kaishi papers, rectangular sheets of paper used chiefly at poetry parties) known as “Ippongyo Waka Kaishi”.
     According to my studies, the letter in the Kongōbu-ji was written when he sent to the temple a copy of a letter from Taira no Kiyomori to the Tō no Chūjō Fujiwara Jissō concerning the Hinokuma Shrine in Wakayama; its date, which has heretofore been put in 1177 or 1180, should be 1174 judging from Kiyomori's visit to Itsukushima Shrine mentioned in it, from the year of the establishment of the Rengejō-in Temple, and from the period during which Fujiwara Jisso was in the post of Tō no Chūjō. Saigyō was fifty-seven years old at the time.
     It has become known that the “Ippongyō Waka Kaishi” was originally in an album form consisting of kaishi sheets. This kaishi set is known to have been written at a party held at the Hosshō-ji Temple sometime between the end of December 1180 and April 1182, but its history is not clear. The theory that the party was held in memory of Fujiwara Norinaga who died around that time, cannot be readily accepted, for none of the poems in the kaishi set refers to any particular person. According to my studies the En-i Kaishi in this set is safely attributable to Saigyō and was written when he was between sixty-two and sixtyfour.
     The above-mentioned three writings by Saigyō show calligraphic styles differing from one another, but they all reveal characteristics of the end of the Heian Period. However, they are quite unlike writings by any other famous calligraphists, such as those of the Hosshōji School, late in the Heian Period, and are also entirely different from already known examples of kana writings in the following Kamakura Period. The fact may be interpretable as illustrative of the unique situation of the poet Saigyō in the history of Japanese calligraphy. I accept these three as authentic handwritings by Saigyō.},
 pages = {35--59},
 title = {西行の筆蹟資料の検討―御物本円位仮名消息をめぐって―},
 year = {1961}
}