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品名（中）	给幕府长官诹访大信的信
品名（英）	Letter to Suwa Daishin, Officer of the Shogun
入馆年号	2014年，2014.719.12
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Musō Soseki【1275 至 1351】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1329 - 公元 1361
创作地区
分类	书法（Calligraphy）
尺寸	图像: 11 5/16 × 14 1/16 英寸 (28.7 × 35.7 厘米) 整体 with mounting: 44 1/2 × 18 1/2 英寸 (113 × 47 厘米) 整体 with knobs: 44 1/2 × 20 1/4 英寸 (113 × 51.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这封信是用正式的中文写的，笔锋笔挺，但清晰、优雅、易读，适合社会地位高的男性之间的通信。林载禅僧的手写印章（kaō）为敷衍了事的行政信息增添了一丝涂鸦的风格。尽管这封信没有任何宗教或文学内容，但一位高僧的笔迹会使它适合在茶道壁龛中展示，并用优雅的丝绸重新装裱。喜鹊和梅花的织物图案是吉祥的，因为在中国，这些词听起来像是"愿你幸福到眉毛"的短语。信中提到，幕府此前曾就淡田（可能是指现在京都的淡田区，南曾寺所在地）的一块土地的管理或所有权向Soseki发出过一封信。他要求这位官员迅速响应命令。Awata似乎是分配给Sútokuan寺庙的土地的一部分，所以我们可以假设Soseki与寺庙相连。
介绍（英）	The letter, composed in formal Chinese, is brushed in a brusque but crisp, elegant, and legible style appropriate for correspondence between men of high social status. The Rinzai Zen monk’s handwritten seal (kaō) adds a touch of scribal flair to the perfunctory administrative message. Though it lacks any religious or literary content, the handwriting of an eminent Zen monk would have made the letter suitable for display in a tea ceremony alcove, and it was remounted in elegant silks. The textile motif of magpies and plum is auspicious since in Chinese the words sound like the phrase meaning “may you have happiness up to your eyebrows.” Musō Soseki, a high-ranking Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk, sent this letter, dated the eighteenth day of the third month (year unspecified), to Suwa Daishin, an official of the Ashikaga shogunate. The letter mentions that the shogunate had previously sent Soseki a letter regarding the management or ownership of a parcel of land in Awata (perhaps referring to Awata district, in present-day Kyoto, where Nanzenji is located). He requests the official to respond with alacrity to the order. It seems that Awata was part of the land allocated to Sūtoku’an Temple, so we can assume that Soseki was connected to the temple.