Single-line Calligraphy by Seikei Tsutetsu
- Person
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作者清渓通徹
- Date
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制作年 AD14
- Title
- セイケイツウテツヒツイチギョウショ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001496-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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- Classification
- Art
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- Handwriting Art Wood Font Signage
Seikei Tsutetsu (1300-85)was a priest of the Linji (Jap. Rinzai) sect of Zen Buddhism who lived during the Kamakura and Nanbokucho Periods. He was one of the master Gozan (five great Rinzai Zen temples) scholars. He was originally from Sagami (today’s Kanagawa Prefecture) and had the family name of Miura, but called himself by the pseudonym of Tenyu (lit. ‘playing in heaven’). He renounced the world under guidance from Kantan Eun of the Jufukuji Temple in Kamakura, and then went up to Kyoto and further on to Yuan-Dynasty China, where he remained for over 30 years as a Zen student monk. After his return, the Priest Muso Soseki (1275-1351) of the Tenryuji Temple certified that Seikei had attained spirited enlightenment. He later served at the Jogoji Temple in today’s Yamanashi and then at the Kyoto-based Rinsenji. He later became the 11th bishop of the Tenryuji and the 37th bishop of the Nanzenji. The Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and the Retired Emperor Kogon (1313-64) became devout Buddhists. During Seikei’s later years, he served at the Joshoji overseeing the Retired Emperor’s mausoleum and died at the age of 86 on November 4, 1385.The one-line verse in the exhibit shows an excerpt from Kongzi Jiayu (Jp. Koshi Kego, anecdotes about Confucius) and means this: ‘When the stream is too crisp clear, fish cannot dwell in it for a lack of food.’ In other words, in order to attain Zen enlightenment, one must be ready to swallow both medicine and poison. The dynamic and magnanimous strokes show the results of his many years of calligraphic training along side his rigorous Zen learning.
When the stream is too crisp clear, fish cannot dwell in it for a lack of food.
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