Because he was in charge of transcribing both the very beginning (scroll one), and the very end (scroll twenty) of the Kokinshu, the presumption is that the calligrapher of the first style was the one who had the highest social status among the three. |
古今集の冒頭の巻一と最後の巻二十を担当していることから、3人の筆者の中でもっとも地位の高い人物と推定される。 |