Single-line Calligraphy by Jifei Ruyi
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作者即非如一
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ソクヒニョイチ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-000766-0000
- 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 Handwriting Font Ink Drawing
Jifei Ruyi (Chifei, Jp. Sokuhi Nyoichi; 1616-71) was a high priest of the Obaku lineage who came to Japan in the early Edo Period from Ming China. He took a tonsure at the age of 18, and four years later received Bodhisattva Precepts at the Mampukuji Temple of Mount Huangbo (Jp. Obaku-Zan), from Ingen Ryuki (Ch. Yinyuan Longqi; 1592-1673) and then certification of spirited enlightenment in 1651. At the invitation of Ingen Ryuki, who had come to Japan earlier, Sokuhi Nyoichialso came and engaged in missionary activities at the Sofukuji Temple in Nagasaki. In 1663, he went up to Kyoto and became the head priest at the Obaku-Zan Mampukuji in Uji, thus assisting Ingen Ryuki along with Mokuan Shoto (Muan Xingtao; 1611-84). Sokuhi Nyoichi planned to leave for China but was strongly requested by Lord Ogasahara Tadazane (1596-1667) of Kokura Province (Fukuoka Prefecture) to stay and founded Koju-Zan Fukujuji in 1665. Three years later, he returned to the Sofukuji in Nagasaki but died of illness in 1671. He was 56 years old. The many Obaku-school monks who came to Japan during the early Edo Period were excellent calligrapher-painters and accomplished poets, so they cast a great influence on Edo culture. The Obaku-school monks used calligraphy as a means to disseminate their teachings, so they left behind many works of art. Sokuhi, Ingen and Mokuan were greatly revered for their impressive calligraphy and the trio was collectively called Obaku no Sanpitsu (‘Three Brushes of Obaku’).The five characters are a phrase from Dharma’s sermonizing verses addressed to his disciples signifying that ‘expressing one’s mind out with determination will lead to self-attainment’ and it is the closing verse found in Jingde Yundenglu (Jingde Chuandenglu; Jp. Keitoku Dento-Roku; The Record of Transmission of the Lamp). The characters ‘Seppo’ seen in the signature is evidence that Sokuhi Nyoichi had studied at Mt. Xuefeng (Seppo-Zan) Chong Shongsi Temple in Fujian Province which was founded by Xuefeng Yicun (Hsueh-feng I-tsun, Jp. Seppo Gison, 822-908). The original verse in Jingde Yundenglu runs as follows: I came to this land to show the law and save the suffering; With practice and discipline, the results will naturally show like a single leaf that will bear five flowers.
With practice and discipline, the results will naturally show like a single leaf that will bear five flowers.
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