Single-line Calligraphy by Gaoquan Xingdun
- Person
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作者高泉性潡
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- コウセンショウトンヒツイチギョウショ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 紙本墨書
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Gaoquan Xingdun (1633-95, Jp. Kosen Shoton) was an Obaku-School priest in Ming Dynasty China who was born in Fuquing in Fujian Province. Since his parents had died when he was young, he started his monk training at 13 years of age. He studied under Huimen Rupei (Jp. Emon Jyohai), the successor to Ingen Ryuki (Ch. Yinyuan Longqi; 1592-1673). He used the pseudonyms Ungai and Donka-Dojin. When he was 29, he sailed to Nagasaki along with Mokuan Shoto (Ch. Muan (Muang) Xingtao, 1611-1684) upon Ingen Ryuki’s request. Later he went to serve at the Obaku-Zan Mampukuji in Uji, Kyoto. Beseeched by devout followers including the Lord of Kanazawa, Maeda Tsunanori (1643-1724) and Emperor Gomizuno-o (1596-1680), Shoton finally decided to become naturalized. After founding the Bukkokuji in Yamashiro-Fushimi in Kyoto, he became the 5th head priest of the Obaku-Zan Mampukuji in 1692 at age 60, where he was admired for contributing to the prosperity of the Obaku School. In 1695, Shotoｎ went up to Edo to deliver a sermon to the 5th Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, but died in October of the same year. He was posthumously named Daien-Koe-Kokushi and Bucchi-Josho-Kokushi. As a highly talented writer, he was nicknamed ‘Kosen the writer’. His calligraphy writing was comparable to that of Dong Qichang (1555-1636), and exhibited a dignified beauty which was held in the highest esteem among the works of art executed by the talented priest-painter-calligraphers of the Obaku School. The phrase in this brushwork is taken from the Blue Cliff Record (Ch. Biyan Lu; Jp. Hekigan-Roku). The five characters mean attaining the realization that all of the laws of the universe surpass immortality and that the monks who have attained realization are empowered and persistence will not give in, even when threatened with sticks and shouts by their masters. The heavy, bold writing style is typical of the Obaku School. This one was written when Kosen Shoton was presiding at the Bukkokuji temple.
（印「臨済正宗」）棒下無生忍佛国高泉書（印「一字高泉」）（印「性潡之印」）
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