Single-line Calligraphy by Yinyuan Longqi
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作者隠元隆琦
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- インゲンリュウキヒツイチギョウショ
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
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- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001099-0000
- License
- 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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- Art
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- Font Art Handwriting
Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryuki,1592-1673) was a Zen priest of the later Ming Dynasty who came to Japan from China during the early Edo Period. Born in Fuzhou （Fujian Province）, he took a tonsure at Mount Huangbo (Jp. Obaku-Zan) at 29 years of age, and when he was around 43, he became the priest at Feiyin Tongrong (Jp. Hiin Tsuyo). Repeatedly invited by Itsunen Shoyu (1601-68), the monk at the Kofukuji Temple in Nagasaki, who had visited Japan earlier, Priest Yinyuan at long last came to Nagasaki along with twenty of his disciples at the age of 63. Later, Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641-80) granted him real estate in Uji (in Kyoto) where the Reverend Ingen founded the Obaku-Zan Mampukuji, thus he became the originator of the Obaku school of Buddhism in Japan. Yinyuan is said to have studied calligraphy by copying the works of Cai-xiang (1012-67) of the Song Dynasty and Dong Qichang (1555-1636) of the Ming Period. Starting from the literati calligraphy style, he added elegance without compromising unique power, which was later developed into the Obaku style. Together with Muan Xingtao (Jp. Mokuan Shoto, 1611-84) and Jifei Ruyi (Jp. Sokuhi Nyoichi, 1616-71), Yinyuan was hailed as Obaku no Sanpitsu (‘Three Brushes of Obaku’) and triggered an immediate taste for the Chinese style in Edo Japan. This one line of calligraphy on a hanging screen is a quotation from the Shanlin Leiju (Jp. Zenrin Ruiju), the 20-volume collection of conundrums to reach enlightenment, compiled in 1307. The quotation is the top of a seven-character couplet poem depicting the Buddhist principle which goes like this: Bamboo trees grow densely but leave enough space not to prevent the free flow of water. In other words, daily deeds carried out in a selfless way will encounter nothing to hinder their progress.
Bamboo trees grow densely but leave enough space not to prevent the free flow of water.
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