Title Kiku no Ma, Chrysanthemum Room

  • Miyagi
Topic(s):
Historic Sites/Castle Ruins
Medium/Media of Use:
Interpretive Sign
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2018
Associated Tourism Board:
ZUIGANJI

伊達藩主は、御典医と武士の警護と一緒に旅をした。彼らが瑞巌寺を訪ねたときに御典医はこの部屋で待機した。 佐久間左京(1581–1658)の障壁画には白、黄色、ピンクの菊が描かれている。菊は元来、薬草として中国から日本に持ち込まれ、領主の医師の控え室に描くには適切なモチーフとされた。

The lords of the Date clan traveled with their personal physicians and samurai guards. When they visited Zuiganji, the doctors would wait in this room. The wall paintings by the artist Sakuma Sakyo (1581–1658) depict white, yellow, and pink chrysanthemums in bloom. Chrysanthemums were originally brought to Japan from China as a medicinal plant and are thus an appropriate motif for a room reserved for the lord’s physicians.

Search