Single Character of Bamboo by Kosetsu Soryu
- Person
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作者江雪宗立
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- コウセツソウリュウヒツタケイチジ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Kosetsu Soryu (1599-1666) was a Rinzai Zen monk of the early Edo Period. Born in Izumi (Osaka Prefecture), he first joined the Kyokuren-Sha, a temple dedicated to Amitabha (Jp. Amida), where he took a tonsure. Then he went to study under Takuan Soho (1573-1645) and later became an heir to Kogetsu Sogan (1574-1643). He was promoted to head the Daitokuji Temple in 1644 at 50 years of age (181st bishop). He served at the Tokaiji Temple in Shinagawa (Tokyo), which had been founded by Takuan Soho, taking turns to handle temple affairs, and was instrumental in building Buddhist halls and residences attached to various temples across the nation. He died at 72 years and was posthumously given the honorable name of Daiko-Chikai-Zenji by Emperor Gosai (1637-85).Kosetsu Soryu calligraphed the single character denoting ‘bamboo’ with an interesting trick: the last stroke of this character is elongated into a drawing of an extended stem of a bamboo, even decorated with a few bamboo leaves around the middle. The leaves are not a simple decoration; they refer to the bottom portion of a famous couplet poem which depicts that ‘the color of a pine tree is changeless, but the bamboo has vertical joints’, insinuating that equality and discrimination coexist – another of the Buddhist laws. Soryu’s work is a rare, witty piece and yet conveys a deep significance.
Bamboo
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