Single-Line Calligraphy by Muan Xingtao
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作者Ming Xingtao
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Date Edo period (17th century)
- Title
- モクアンショウトウヒツイチギョウショ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Ink on paper
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001412-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
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Keio University (Century Akao Collection)
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- Art
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- Handwriting Art Font Wood Tire
Muan (Muang) Xingtao （Jp. Mokuan Shoto, 1611-84) was a priest of the Obaku lineage who lived during the early Edo Period. He originally came from Quanzhou in Fujian Province in Ming China. Entering the priesthood at the age of 19, he trained under Yinyuan Longqi (Jp. Ingen Ryuki; 1592-1673) at Mt. Huangbo (Jp. Obaku-Zan) and received certification of attaining spirited enlightenment. In the year following priest Yinyuan’s trip to Japan (1655), Muan Xingtao also came to these shores at the age of 45. He served at the Fukusaiji Temple in Nagasaki, but later went up to Mt. Obaku in Uji (Kyoto) to assist Yinyuan build the Mampukuji Temple, where he became the second bishop in 1664. Thereafter, he devoted himself to the preparation and maintenance of the Buddhist halls and education of the congregation. Earning deep trust from the 4th Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641-1680), priest Muan was instrumental in paving the way for the heyday of the Obaku lineage in Japan. He was 74 when he died in 1684. Muan Xingtao was lauded as one of the Obaku no Sanpitsu (‘Three Brushes of Obaku’) and was particularly excellent in the rapidly flowing semi-cursive writing style. The five characters express the ending verse of a couplet that sings about ‘a crane landing on a mountain of piled snow and a dragon rising from within deep waters’. It’s an excerpt from Volume 2 of the Collection of Sermons by Yuan-wu (Jp. Engo Goroku). In Zen terminology, the verse depicts a state of mind which is free from attachments to the place one may find himself in. One can almost envision the fast and smooth run of the brush creating the powerful traces of the stroke.
A dragon is rising from within deep waters.
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