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Klimov V. Ise-Heishi (Taira clan) Precepts of the Lord Ise Sadachika

Vadim Klimov
The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
ORCID: 0000-0002-0182-3872
E-mail: klimovvadim26@gmail.com

 

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ABSTRACT. The bloodline of the Ise military house goes back to the Imperial family, namely to Emperor Kammu 桓武天皇 (737–806). The Ise clan especially rose up the hierarchical ladder after it began to support Takauji 足利尊氏 (1305–1358), who became the first shogun from the Ashikaga clan. The leaders of the House of Ise headed the Administration Chamber (Mandokoro, 政所) from generation to generation. Ise Sadachika 伊勢貞親 (1417–1473) is a prominent representative of the military elite in the middle of the 15th century. He created an instruction to his son Sadamune 貞宗 (1444–1509), consisting of 38 articles, a short afterword and a poem in the tanka genre in Japanese. The original manuscript of the teachings was lost, however a few copies were preserved. Sadachika was far from showing examples of high morality and purity. He was typical representative of the upper strata of the Muromachi military government 室町幕府. However, his advices to his son Sadamune, the future head of the Ise military house, on the one hand, are of a very concrete “earthly” nature, and, on the other hand, contains not entirely realistic recommendations drawn from the world of literary fiction. The text contains a large number of hidden quotations from Chinese, Japanese classical literature and Buddhist texts, which in itself testifies to the high intellectual level of the author of the precepts.

 

KEYWORDS: clan Ise Heishi/Taira, Taira/Ise Korehira, Ise Sadachuka, Ise Sadamune, precepts, 38 articles

 

FOR CITATION: Klimv V. Ise-Heishi (Taira clan) Precepts of the Lord Ise Sadachika. Kunstkamera. 2023. 2(20): 110–130. (In Russian). doi 10.31250/2618-8619-2023-2(20)-110-130

  

 

DOI 10.31250/2618-8619-2023-2(20)-110-130
УДК 94

 

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