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Single-line Calligraphy by Ji-un Onko

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制作年 AD18
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ジウンオンコウヒツイチギョウショ
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Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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AW-CEN-001435-0000
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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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Ji-un Onko was a scholar-priest of the Shingon Sect of Buddhism, who was born at the official mansion of the Takamatsu Province (Kagawa Prefecture) government located in Nakanoshima, Osaka. His childhood name was Manjiro. Onko studied the Zhu Xi (‘Theory of Zhuzi’; Jp. Shushi Gaku) under his father Kozuki Yasunori. He entered Buddhist training at the age of 13 and became a student of Confucianism (Jp. Jugaku) under Ito Togai (1670-1736) at age 16. Thereafter, he took office at several different temples including the Horakuji, but in his later years, he lived like a hermit at the Soryu-An in Mt. Ikoma in Yamato (Nara Prefecture). He was a scholar of the Exoteric and Esoteric Teachings of Buddhism and was thoroughly versed in Zen Buddhism. A compulsive learner throughout his life, he authored as many as a hundred books. Ji-un Onko’s hand is wild and dynamic but also filled with dignity and grace and even soothing tenderness. This exhibit shows the words of Linji Yixuan (Linchi I-hsuan; Jp. Rinzai Gigen), the originator of the Rinzai Sect Buddhism, in which Linji’s advocates the ‘true man without affairs’.

True man without affairs.

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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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Single-line Calligraphy by Ji-un Onko

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Single-line Calligraphy by Ji-un Onko

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