Single-line Calligraphy by Ungan Sozui
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作者雲巖祖瑞
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ウンガンソズイヒツイチギョウショ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 絹本着色
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001801-0000
- 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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- Art
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- Art Font Painting Drawing Monochrome
Ungan Sozui (1659-1720) was a Rinzai Zen priest associated with the Myoshinji branch. He was the founder of the Sei-unji in Tamba, and was later (1685)transferred to the Shofukuji, which had been established in Settsu (Kobe) by Bankei Yotaku. In his last years, Sozui was known to have served at the Ryumonji Temple(in Himeji City), also founded by Bankei Yotaku. The calligraphy shows an excerpt from Rentian Yanmu (Jen-t'ien yen-mu; Jp. Ninden Ganmoku) and refers to a ‘hornless iron cow sleeping in Shaoshi Shan (Mt. Song in Henan Province)’. The Shaolin Temple (Jp. Shorinji) is located at the northern foot of this mountain and is famous for a place where Dharma (Sk. Bodhidharma; Ch. Damo) practiced the type of ‘wall-gazing’ or ‘wall-facing’ sitting meditation and where Eka came to beg him for the principles of Zen. Dharma’s tomb is also found here. A ‘hornless iron cow’ is a referral to the solid, power-filled and iron-willed Dharmaand in Zen terminology also signifies freedom from self and constraints. The brushwork is rendered with an unevenly shaped brush in a most natural manner as the writer was taken over by a sudden zest, and thus embodies the Zen spirit.
Hornless iron cow sleeping in Mt. Song.
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