Historic site where Tokugawa Ieyasu's chair/folding stool was positioned/set
Explanation:
Yo-san,
Okay, here is a far-out theory...
This is quite interesting and I may be totally off my rocker but this is how I interpret it.
If you think that your source term should be "徳川家康公床机据之跡" (as you say above) this is my theory.
床机= folding chair or stool
据 = set, lay, place, install, equip, appoint, and (suwaru) = squat down, sit down, (eyes) fixed on.
I'm thinking that it is the site where Tokugawa's folding stool was placed while he watched the Battle of Sekigahara. (It makes me think of those old samurai movies where the Lords sat on their folding chairs/stools as they watched their brave samurai fight the wars.)
As you can see from the website below, "Having cleared the path to become the next shogun, Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu sat back on his stool and mused to those in his presence, "After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet."
I think that was a most important and pivotal time in Tokugawa's history!--so his folding chair/stool has been memorialized.
http://www.jko.com/portal/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=45&PN=4
The Battle of Sekigahara was decisive victory. Among the final pursuits of the battle, when the Easterners mopped up remaining pockets of resistance, Lord Ishida's home castle at Sawayama was captured and his brother killed. Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu had to be restrained by his own commanders from taking similar vengeance against his own son, Hidetada, who showed up with his 38,000 samurai just after the end of the fighting. A "heads inspection" was performed at Lord Tokugawa's final encampment just north of Sekigahara along the Hokkoku Road, where he viewed the nearly 40,000 enemy heads taken in battle. Within three days, Lord Ishida Mitsunari was captured in the area of Mount Ibuki and taken to Kyoto with other captive leaders of the Western Army. All were executed on the river bed within a matter of days. Having cleared the path to become the next shogun, Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu sat back on his stool and mused to those in his presence, "After victory, tighten the cords of your helmet."
The Battle of Sekigahara represented the last great leap out of generations of bitter civil warfare in Japan. First and foremost, it established Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu as hegemon over all Japan and ended any claim to supremacy by the Toyotomi family. He permitted the young Toyotomi Hideyori and his mother Yodogimi to retain his residence in Osaka Castle along with 650,000 koku of land in three nearby provinces, but he confiscated the domains of some ninety daimyo outright and reduced the land holdings of many others. Before Sekigahara, all the daimyo had submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Now, they would have to submit to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
http://www.phoenixbonsai.com/Paintings/Japan1600to1800.html
stool (from Tokugawa period)
So my conclusion is this:
This is the historic site where Tokugawa Ieyasu's chair/folding stool was positioned/set where he fixed his eyes on the Battle of Sekigahara--a victory and a turning point in Japanese history.
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Note added at 5 hrs (2007-04-16 02:24:27 GMT)
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By the way, the second site is just a stool from the Tokugawa period. It's the website above it that I find quite fascinating.
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Note added at 9 hrs (2007-04-16 06:14:12 GMT)
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Just as a little added piece of related information:
Folding chairs and stools (antique Chinese chairs, particularly Ming Dynasty) are very desirable from a collector’s standpoint. They command very high prices at auctions.
The bottom info, taken from a website shows how crazy prices are with important antique Chinese furniture:
…“Cornell, who sits on Sotheby's advisory board and is a trustee of the Asia Society Museum, is selling a US$1.9 million collection of classical Chinese furniture -- including a wooden 17th-century Ming Dynasty folding-back chair, estimated to bring as much as US$300,000.”
(Japanese folding chairs/stools were patterned after the Chinese stools.)
And the website below talks about the history of the folding chair. It also says that: “folding chairs were seats of ceremony, and are depicted in conventional ancestor paintings. these traveling chairs were carefully represented in the portraits, reflecting their importance and historical significance.”
http://www.designboom.com/eng/education/folding/asia.html
So, such chairs have historical significance…Tokugawa Ieyasu was no ordinary man—it was no ordinary war—and it was no ordinary chair. (In my humble opinion)
| Joyce A
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