Single-line Calligraphy by Gaoquan Xingdun
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作者高泉性潡
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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
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- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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- AW-CEN-001266-0000
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- CC BY Images license
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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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Gaoquan Xingdun (Jp. Kosen Shoton, 1633-95) 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, 1611-84) 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(1646-1709) , 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 calligraphy reads as ‘a band of clouds’. In the Zen world, there is a joy in contemplating the changing shapes of clouds, but sometimes clouds covering mountain peaks are viewed as worldly desires which occlude people’s perception. The powerful strokes that dash off from the top to the bottom showcase the author’s expertise, and this one is among the most precious of the brushworks done by Kosen Shoton.
A band of clouds
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