Stefan Arteni

(Geizan )
shod
(the path of writing)
expanded version of the lecture planned for the
May 5, 2012 (Saturday) workshop
associated with the exhibition
Storytelling in Japanese Art ,
Shod November 19, 2011 May 6, 2012
Stefan Arteni (Geizan) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Storytelling in Japanese Art
2 November 19, 2011 May 6, 2012
Galleries 223232

a selection of works
3

1
Sugawara no Michizane
(845-903) is the patron
deity of scholarship and
calligraphy

1. Illustrated Legends of the

Kitano Tenjin Shrine,
Kamakura period (11851333),
Fletcher Fund, 1925,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
Catalog checklist 1
2. The Illustrated Miracles of Kannon,
Kamakura period, 1257,
Sugawara Mitsushige calligrapher,
Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift 1953,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
3. The Great
Woven Cap,
set of scrolls,
Edo period,
17th century,
Asakura
Juken
calligrapher,
Spencer
Collection,
The New York
Public Library
Catalog
checklist 4b
4. The Tale of Gio, set of
scrolls, Momoyama
period, 16th century,
Spencer Collection, The
New York Public Library
Catalog checklist 8
5.The Tales of Ise, pair of six-panel folding screens, Edo period, 17th century, Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation
 Shod (literally the writing path)
D means path, way - the Chinese reading is Tao. Sho is not merely beautiful script, nor is it just
a means of conveying data. Calligraphy is one of the spiritual, martial and aesthetic disciplines or
ways [E.g the way of tea Chad , the way of the sword Kendo, etc.]

Among those engaged in the practice of calligraphy [ascesis, from Greek askesis, literally
exercise or training] we count monks and nuns, warriors and intelligence officers, craftsmen and
artists, scholars and poets, diplomats, politicians and businesspeople. [E.g. The great Woven Cap
scrolls calligrapher Asakura Juken, 17th century, warrior./Otagaki Rengetsu, 19th century, nun,
poet, painter, potter, calligrapher, skilled in martial arts and tea ceremony / the three Shu who
ensured a relatively peaceful and orderly transition of power in the Meiji Restoration , 19th century,
skilled in martial arts, calligraphy, Zen / Saigo Takamori, 19th century, the Last Samurai/Hisamatsu
Shinichi, 20th century, philosopher, skilled in Zen and calligraphy, tea ceremony master / etc.]

The act of writing becomes purposeless, independent of any will-power. Body, mind, brush, ink and
paper unite and become indistinguishable from the act itself. Shod has an effect on ones spiritual
growth. Nishida Kitar (18701945): True creation arises from mu-shin, or the state of no-mind,
which lies beyond thoughts, emotions and expectations - the mind will free itself from the
attachments to hope and fears and calculation.
.
Shakyo, sutra transcription or copying the Lotus Sutra is often taken up by calligraphers - is a
means of improving calligraphic skill, a meditative practice, or a way to gain Blessings.
Those who commissioned or collected the works were already familiar with the stories
handed down, told and retold for a long time. Essentially, the aim of the viewer was to
evaluate the skill of the painter, to ascertain the proficiency of the calligrapher and to
compare the work to similar versions one may use a musical analogy, variations on a
theme, or one may imagine the same scenario with a different range of visual effects.

[On the common origin of writing and painting see:

http://www.scribd.com/collections/2802580/Stefan-Arteni-Writing-Systems-Art-
Communication ]

A person looking at calligraphy is usually a practitioner of the art and consequently will
be able to follow mentally the graphic variability of characters and the movement of the
brush, its turns and speed. Sho can be viewed either as just a text to be read or as a
painterly composition, In the latter case, readability becomes irrelevant. [Luhmann s
communication theory: one can focus on either the information or how the information is
expressed.. E.g. The Tales of Ise screen the writing, although still readable, becomes
part of the design, it modulates the large gilded areas.]

Like Zen, Sho can be analyzed, it can be described, it can be sensed but it is a vague
image with no substance until it is experienced: 'The path of words has been cut out.
 Way, Path
(Chinese: Tao, Dao
Japanese: D, Michi) www.art-virtue.com/styles/kai/index.htm
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Empress Komyo Kogo 701-760
Yamamoto Gempo 1866-1961 (Rinzai sect)
John Stevens, Sacred Calligraphy of the East,
Shambhala, Boulder & London, 1981, p. 195
 Tao (D). It is not angry even if its stepped on
(Kato) Ryuho Zensho 1915-1992 (Rinzai sect)
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9167.html
Kamijo Shinzan

20th century
Tanaka
Setsuzan

mu-shin, the state of no mind:

 Mushin Taitsu Kono b 1930 (Rinzai sect)
http://brucekennedyphotos.zenfolio.com/img/s11/v3/p219714601-3.jpg
Kamijo Shinzan 20th century
Kumo Mushin Torin Ozeki (Soen) b 1932 (Rinzai sect)
http://cameronjcampbell.name/Tier2/Japanese_calligrap
hy/Ozeki_Torin/Ozeki_Torin_kumomushin.jpg
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
 Kkai ()
known posthumously as Kb-Daishi
( The Grand Master Who Propagated the Buddhist
Teaching) 774835
 A 14th century portrait of Kkai
ofwww.artic.edu/aic/collections/m
y/inside-art-japan/16161
 Kkai (Kb-Daishi), woodcut
www.madinpursuit.com/blog/2011/
06/02/who-is-kobo-daishi/
 Calligraphy by Kkai, Touji Temple, Kyoto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Huushincho_1.jpg
Siddham, (bonji), script
was introduced to Japan by
Kkai
http://www.omniglot.com/writ
ing/siddham.htm

Kkai, Siddham alphabet

http://www.visiblemantra.org/
kukai-alphabet.html
Jiun Sonja Onko
1718-1804 (Shingon sect)
http://zenart.shambhala.com/
Hemp pilgrims coat 19th century
http://www.trocadero.com/haruko/items/
1125196/item1125196.html
Enso with seed syllable
A
Hyakure
http://www.robynbuntin.c
om/ItemDetail.asp?Prod
uctID=14565
 Oomori Zenkai 1871-1947 (Soto sect)
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/sakuhin/zen
kai-e164.html
Siddham (bonji)
calligraphy
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
 Kb Daishi/Kkai is credited with the invention of the syllabic writing system.
According to tradition, he also composed the Iroha, a poem which is a perfect pangram,
containing each character of the syllabary exactly once.

Iroha is a poem about the impermanence of all things. The first syllables, i and ro, iro,
mean color, form. The context of the poem brings to mind The Heart Sutra: form is
emptiness, emptiness is form.




Iroha poem
(the old text)

Iroha poem (modern form)
http://www.japanisch-netzwerk.de/Thread-Japanische-Pangramme-von-der-Heian-Zeit-
bis-heute?page=2
Iro wa niedo
Chirinuru o
Waga yo tare zo
Tsune naran
Kyo koete
Asaki yume mi-ji
Ei mo sezu

Though the colors [of autumn flowers]

Are bright,
They fade away.
Who in this world of ours
May continue forever?
Crossing today the boundaries of the physical world,
No more shallow dreams or intoxication.
http://kc-shotokan.com/Essays/nantenbo.htm
 Iroha poem

http://www.japanisch-
netzwerk.de/Thread-Japanische-
Pangramme-von-der-Heian-Zeit-
bis-heute?page=2

(iro, shiki: color, form;

sanskrit: rupa)
From the Heart Sutra (Mahaprajnaparamita):
Form is emptiness
Emptiness is form
The Heart
Sutra Part 1
Oh-Yang
Sheun

557-641
(China)
www.art-
virtue.com/hi
story/tang/ta
ng.htm
The Heart
Sutra Part 2
Oh-Yang
Sheun

557-641
(China)
www.art-
virtue.com/hi
story/tang/ta
ng.htm
 The Heart Sutra Zhao Mengfu 12541322 (China)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-
Dqfrvyhwb9A/TwNpr_bQw3I/AAAAAAAAABo/g6SlllIlSZ0/s1600/heart%2Bsutra2.jpg
The Heart Sutra
Shizan
written in 1934
http://jyuluck-do.com/sp70259.html
 Heart Sutra and Daruma
Nichibutsu 20th century
http://jyuluck-do.com/sp30080.html
Heart Sutra
(Obara) Tenmon Taigen
-1948 (Rinzai sect)
http://web.kyoto-
inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-
an/9135.html
The Heart Sutra
Nakayama Hakudo 1870-1958
(swordsman)
http://zenart.shambhala.com/wp-
content/themes/zenart/products/f
ull_size/3125.jpg
 l

Emptiness Zhu Yunmng 1460 1526 (China)

http://beyond-calligraphy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/figure_4_kanji-
etymology_kuu.jpg
 Emptiness Kasumi Bunsho 1905-1998 (Rinzai sect)
http://brucekennedyphotos.zenfolio.com/img/s8/v9/p443834471-3.jpg
Emptiness
Kamijo
Shinzan

20th century
Emptiness
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
Emptiness Form
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Form Emptiness
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Form
Emptiness
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
carved seal
Iroha
Folding screen
Iroha poem
Yamaoka Tesshu

1836 1888
John Stevens, The
Sword of No Sword,
Shambhala, Boston &
Shaftesbury, 1989,
p. 100
Folding screen set and
details
Iroha poem
Shoun (Sohan Gempo)
1848-1922
(Rinzai sect)
www.the-
kura.com/items/974560/en5st
ore.html
Folding screen set, details
Iroha poem
Shoun (Sohan Gempo)
1848-1922
(Rinzai sect)
www.the-
kura.com/items/974560/en5store.
html
 Folding screen set, detail, Iroha poem
Shoun (Sohan Gempo) 1848-1922 (Rinzai sect)
www.the-kura.com/items/974560/en5store.html
Folding
screen set,
details,
Iroha poem
Shoun (Sohan
Gempo),
1848-1922
(Rinzai sect)
www.the-
kura.com/item
s/974560/en5
store.html
 Folding screen set, detail, Iroha poem
Shoun (Sohan Gempo) 1848-1922 (Rinzai sect)
www.the-kura.com/items/974560/item974560store.html
Folding
screen set,
details,
Iroha poem
Shoun
(Sohan
Gempo)
1848-1922
(Rinzai sect)
www.the-
kura.com/ite
ms/974560/e
n5store.html
 Folding screen set, detail, Iroha poem
Shoun (Sohan Gempo) 1848-1922 (Rinzai sect)
www.the-kura.com/items/974560/item974560store.html
Iroha poem (first panel of a pair
of folding screens)
Nakahara Nantemb 1839-1925
(Rinzai sect)
http://kc-
shotokan.com/Essays/nantenbo.
htm
Iroha poem
Tea bowl by Ogawa Takeo
with calligraphy by
Shimizu Kosho (Kegon sect)
20th century
http://www.asianart.com/Bach
mannEckenstein/5.html
 Iroha poem
Tea bowl by Ogawa Takeo with calligraphy by Shimizu Kosho (Kegon sect)
20th century
http://www.asianart.com/BachmannEckenstein/5.html
I Ro Ha Ni
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
I Ro Ha Ni
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Edo period
Hosokawa Tadaoki
1563-1646
ichijoji.blogspot.com/2011
_09_01_archive.html
 Gracia (Garasha) Hosokawa 1563-1600 (Christian convert)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-
zFh7AH2SJrA/TmsGu6ka98I/AAAAAAAAALA/yL2SOIsVo14/s1600/Gracia+2.jpg
Miyamoto Musashi
17th century
http://img171.image
shack.us/img171/5
993/miyamotoscan
3fd5.jpg
Honami Koetsu 17th century www.moaart.or.jp/owned_e.php?id=151
When the mountain is high the
moon rises late
Kan Tan'y 16021674
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/2
96.1986/
 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi
www.shoga.jp/en/item/cat149/cat8/
 Edo period
17th 18th centuries
www.japanesescreen
s.com/items/6525_65
25A_sixfold_paper_sc
reen_...

Edo period
17th 18th
centuries
www.japanese
screens.com/it
ems/6526_652
6A_sixfold_pap
er_screen_...
Yanagizawa Kien 1704-1758
http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/
hb638nb779/
A Tang poem, "Maple Bridge
Night Mooring:
The moon sets, crows sing,
and frost fills the sky.
Maple trees along the river
and fires in the fishing boats
face me, sleepless with
lament.
The bell of Cold Mountain
Temple outside Sozhou tolls,
At midnight, the sound
reached this boat.
Ike no Taiga
1723-1776
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pe
terjr1961/3733852639/
Hakuin Ekaku 1686-1768
(Rinzai sect)
http://zoom.mfa.org/fif=sc2%2FS
C205219.fpx&obj=iip%2C1.0&wi
d=1000&cell=1000%2C1000&cv
t=jpeg
 Yosa Buson 1716-1783
http://www.bachmanneckenstein.com/exhibitions/past/2012/Asia_Week/images/2109-1.JPG
Reizei Tanemura 1712-1774
http://www.shoga.jp/en/item/2011/03/110
99.html
Kameda Bosai 1752-1826
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosm
orochester2/5718271055/sizes/l/i
n/set-72157626592759685/
Jiun Sonja Onko 1718-1804 (Shingon sect) http://www.shodo.it/zensho-bio.html
Jiun Sonja Onko 1718-1804
(Shingon sect)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-
UsX_5VQ3GxA/TWOzp9xyw8I/AA
AAAAAACcI/6MYdWeACCXQ/s16
00/Jiun_2.jpg
Minagawa Kien 1734-1807
http://visipix.dynalias.com/cgi-
bin/view?userid=1843963255&q=
r%5C^2.*&n=70&p=4&l=en&u=2
&ub=1&k=1
 Minagawa Kien 1734-1807
http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/chi06/chi06_03890/chi06_03890_0065/chi06_038
90_0065_0004/chi06_03890_0065_0004_p0001.jpg
Haiku Kobayashi Issa 1763-1828
www.shoga.jp/en/item/cat149/cat11/cat166/
Haiku Kobayashi Issa 1763-1828
http://www.shoga.jp/en/item/2011/03/
11229.html
Sengai Gibon 1750 1837
(Rinzai sect)
http://www.nagaragawagaro
u.com/ga/sengai-setta-
nisyu1.jpg
Detail, Sengai Gibon 1750 1837 (Rinzai sect) http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/ga/sengai-setta-nisyu2.jpg
Ichi, ni, san
and I Ro Ha,
Rykan Taigu
,
17581831
(St sect)
John Stevens,
Sacred
Calligraphy of
the East,
Shambhala,
Boulder &
London, 1981,
p. 168
Yamamoto Oan 1772-1830 (scholar)
www.robynbuntin.com/ItemDetail.asp?ProductID=10
757
Nukina Kaioku
17781863
bunjin (scholar-artist)
http://www.artgallery.ns
w.gov.au/media/collecti
on_images/2/237.1993
%23%23S.jpg
Nukina Kaioku
17781863
bunjin (scholar-artist)
http://quod.lib.umich.e
du/m/musart/x-1987-
sl-2.45/*
Nukina Kaioku
17781863
bunjin
(scholar-artist)
www.trocadero.com/
YamazoeTenkodo/it
ems/923014/item92
3014store....
 Nukina Kaioku 17781863
bunjin (scholar-artist)
http://mountshang.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/352.1994

tagaki Rengetsu
(potter, painter, calligrapher, skilled at dance, martial
arts, tea ceremony) 17911875 (Jodo sect)
zenwomen.org/work/otagaki-rengetsu/otagaki-
rengetsu-gallery/
tagaki Rengetsu (potter, painter, calligrapher, skilled at dance, martial arts, tea ceremony) 17911875 (Jodo sect)
http://www.bachmanneckenstein.com/exhibitions/past/2012/Asia_Week/images/1546-1.JPG
tagaki Rengetsu
(potter, painter, calligrapher,
skilled at dance, martial arts, tea
ceremony) 17911875
(Jodo sect)
http://www.bachmanneckenstein.
com/exhibitions/past/2012/Asia_
Week/images/1526-p.JPG
tagaki Rengetsu
(potter, painter,
calligrapher, skilled
at dance, martial
arts, tea ceremony)
17911875
(Jodo sect)
www.asianart.com/B
achmannEckenstein
/d11206.html
The "Three Shu" (Katsu Kaishu, Takahashi Deishu, and
Yamaoka Tesshu) 19th century
kashima-arts.com/kakejiku/kindai_sho/gallery/katsu.html

Katsu Kaish 1823-1899

robynbuntin.com/ItemDetail.asp?ProductID=3716
Katsu Kaishu 1823-1899
http://www.nagaragawagarou
.com/sakuhin/kaishuu-
d131.html
Katsu Kaishu 1823-1899
http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.j
p/kosho/chi03/chi03_03535/c
hi03_03535_0070/chi03_035
35_0070_p0001.jpg
Takahashi Deishu 1835 1903
http://www.nagaragawagarou.c
om/sakuhin/deishuu-d130.html
 The way of the warrior
(Bushido )
http://www.vam.ac.uk/con
tent/articles/z/zen-
calligraphy/

Takahashi Deish
1835 - 1903
http://web.kyoto- http://web.kyoto-
inet.or.jp/org/jikyu- inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-
an/8511.html an/8512.html
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/ga/deisyu-byoubu1.jpg

Takahashi Deish 1835 1903

http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/deisyu-suichiku1.jpg
Takahashi Deishu
1835 1903
tushabuntin.wordpr
ess.com/2011/11/04
/the-brush-shop-
deishu/
Takahashi Deishu 1835 1903
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/
sakuhin/deishuu-d094.html
Yamaoka Tesshu

1836 1888
http://archive.wul.waseda.
ac.jp/kosho/chi06/chi06_0
4669/chi06_04669_p000
1.jpg
Yamaoka Tesshu

1836 1888
underthemoonshadow.blogsp
ot.com/2011/08/calligraphy-
by-yamaoka...
Yamaoka Tesshu

1836 1888
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_
mEWicjQcCqI/TBt8sUquj
mI/AAAAAAAAAh8/jrSo88
YrUPc/s1600/yamaoka-
tesshu_thonshi.gif
Modern period
Shinten-o Yamanaka 1821-1885
http://shogaya.com/indexe.html
Saigo Takamori
1827-1877
kashima-
arts.com/gakusou/kindai
_sho/index.html
Saigo Takamori
1827-1877
www.aikidocenterla.co
m/2004/8/20.html
Saigo Takamori
1827-1877
http://www.wul.waseda.
ac.jp/kosho/chi03/chi03
_3535_150/chi03_3535
_150.jpg
Saigo Takamori
1827-1877
http://archive.wul.wased
a.ac.jp/kosho/chi06/chi0
6_04670/chi06_04670.ht
ml
Tani Tateki 1837-1911
(general, politician)
www.shoga.jp/en/item/2011/03/11
155.html
Natsume Sseki 1867-1916
(novelist, poet, Zen student)
www.asianart.com/Bachma
nnEckenstein/d13093.html
Nakabayashi Gochiku
18271913
http://archive.wul.waseda.a
c.jp/kosho/chi03/chi03_038
38/chi03_03838_0013/chi0
3_03838_0013_p0001.jpg
Nakabayashi Gochiku 1827-1913
http://www.shoga.jp/en/item/2011/
03/11142.html
Bairei Kono
1844-1895 (artist)
http://visipix.dynalias
.com/cgi-
bin/view?userid=105
9555991&q=%272a
Authors/B/Bairei%2
01844-
1895%2C%20Koun
o%2C%20Japan%2
7&n=0&p=1&l=en&u
=2&ub=1&k=0
Inukai Tsuyoshi (Mokudo)
1855-1932
(prime minister)
www.trocadero.com/YamazoeTen
kodo/items/923011/item923011sto
re....
Keishun Sekido
1840-1919 (Shingon sect)
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.ht
ml
(Kozuki)Tesshu Chisei
1879-1937 (Rinzai sect)
http://www.jikyu-
an.com/9046.html
http://www.manyoanco
llection.org/collection/
works/detail/599/745/

Nakahara Nantemb
1839-1925
(Rinzai sect)

www.artfixdaily.com/art
wire/release/1615-
15th-asia-week-
exhibi...
 Nakahara Nantemb 1839-1925 (Rinzai sect)
http://visipix.dynalias.com/cgibin/view?userid=1895240437&q=r%5C^2.*&n=62&p=3&l=en&u=2&ub
=1&k=1
Nakahara Nantemb 1839-1925 (Rinzai sect)
http://kmbasianart.blogspot.com/2005/12/zen-
masters-poem-and.html
A pine tree in the cold - the
colour lasting a thousand years.
An old farmer with flowers in his
hand - spring everywhere.
Nakahara Nantemb
1839-1925 (Rinzai sect)
http://www.bachmanneckenstei
n.com/exhibitions/past/2001/Ink
traces_Zen_Painting_by_Nante
mbo_Deiryu_Bunsho_Gitei/pain
tings/10.html
 Meisetsu Naito 1847-1926 (poet)
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.html
(Nukariya) Busasan Kaiten
1867-1934 (Soto sect)
http://web.kyoto-
inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9141.html
Fukuda Kodojin
1865-1944
(poet)
http://www.bach
manneckenstein.
com/exhibitions/p
ast/2010/images/
Kodojin/1696-
2.jpg
Kansetsu Hashimoto 1882-1945
(artist, poet)
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.ht
ml
Gakudo Ozaki
1859-1954
(politician)
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.
html
Ogasawara Naganari 1867-1958
(intelligence officer, naval officer)
www.asianart.com/BachmannEcke
nstein/d9540.html
Sogaku Harada
1871-1961 (Soto sect)
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.ht
ml
Yamamoto Gempo 1866-1961
(Rinzai sect)
http://www.nagaragawagarou.co
m/sakuhin/genpou-e167.html
 Yamamoto Gempo 1866-1961 (Rinzai sect)
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/sakuhin/genpou-
e168.html
Yamamoto Gempo 1866-1961
(Rinzai sect)
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-
an/9075.html
Heading straight in clouds.
(Hoshino) Taigen Seidou
1885-1962 (Rinza sect)i
http://web.kyoto-
inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9094.html
Kouji Sonko 1883-1969
(Jodo sect)
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.ht
ml
Tenpu Nakamura 1876-1968 (intelligence officer, businessman, created Japanese yoga)
www.shogaya.com/html-e/syoka-page2.htm
Fujii Tatsukichi 1881-1964 (artist)
www.nagaragawagarou.com/visualm
useum/m-tatsukichi.html
Mind (Kono) Enkai Sokan 1901-1970 (Rinzai sect, ceramic artist, selected as important intangible cultural asset in 1958)
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9125.html
 Enso Shibayama Zenkei 20th century (Rinzai sect)
sweetcakeenso.blogspot.com/2011/04/artful-teachings-of-fukushi...
 Teshigawara Sofu 1900-1979
http://www.shoga.jp/en/item/2011/11/11352.html
Kazan 20th century
http://www.chikuringallery.com/scrolls/
scroll_13.php
Hisamatsu Shinichi 1889-1980
(philosopher, Zen Buddhist
scholar, tea ceremony master)
http://www.jikyu-
an.com/9029.html
 Hisamatsu Shinichi 1889-1980
(philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, tea ceremony
master)
www.nagaragawagarou.com/en-
hisamatsushinichi.html
 Hisamatsu Shinichi 1889-1980
(philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, tea ceremony
master)
www.nagaragawagarou.com/englishindex.html
 Hisamatsu Shinichi 1889-1980
(philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, tea
ceremony master)
www.nagaragawagarou.com/en-
hisamatsushinichi.html
 Hisamatsu Shinichi 1889-1980
(philosopher, Zen Buddhist scholar, tea
ceremony master)
www.nagaragawagarou.com/en-
hisamatsushinichi.html
Sato Taishun
1889-1975 (Soto sect)
http://www.nagaragaw
agarou.com/ga/taisyun
-shijyouhei1.jpg
Abe Zenryo 1898 1984 (Obaku sect)
jyuluck-do.com/sp70258.html
 (Oota) Bussan Tosui 1913-1979 (Soto sect)
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9067.html
Yamada Mumon 1900-1988
(Rinzai sect)
 Kitamura Seibo 1884-1987
http://www.shoga.jp/en/item/2011/02/11148.html
(Oomori) Tekiou Sogen 1904-1994 (Rinzai sect)
http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9078.html
 Everlasting green color of pine trees expresses the longevity.
(Tani) Kogetsu Soko 1931-1994 (Rinzai sect) http://www.jikyu-an.com/8342.html
Bunsho Kasumi 1905-1998
(Rinzai sect)
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.
html
 Umehara Takeshi b 1925 (scholar)
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/ga/umeharatakeshi-jyunkan2.jpg
A god in the heavens, a spirit in
the ground
Suda Kokuta 1906-1990
http://www.asianart.com/Bachm
annEckenstein/6.html
.
Hibino Koho
http://www.britishmuse
um.org/research/searc
h_the_collection_datab
ase/search_object_ima
ge.aspx?objectId=166
5631&partId=1&search
Text=frame&searchTer
m=frame&orig=%2fres
earch%2fsearch_the_c
ollection_database.asp
x&numPages=200&cur
rentPage=1&output=se
archText%3dframe%26
ItemsPerPage%3d200
&asset_id=220207
Yoshida Seidou
http://www.knsh.kr/web/bbs/board
.php?bo_table=z4_3&wr_id=20&p
age=&page=
Kogi Taihou
http://www.knsh.kr/web/
bbs/board.php?bo_tabl
e=z4_3&wr_id=7&page
=2
Ito Yasuko
http://www.knsh.kr/web/bbs/boar
d.php?bo_table=z4_3&wr_id=2&
page=
Ishitobi Hakko
http://www.ishit
obi-
hakko.com/rens
ai/11.jpg
Style
Miyajima Eishi 1867-1943
www.nagaragawagarou.com/works/en-eishi-c074.html
 Miyajima Eishi 1867-1943
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/sakuhin/eishi-
h009.html
Miyajima Eishi 1867-1943
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/sakuhin/eishi-
h010.html
Hozan 20th century
http://jyuluck-
do.com/sp70152.html
Kamijo Shinzan

20th century
Kamijo Shinzan 20th century
 Kamijo Shinzan 20th century
http://www.shoshou.com/_src/sc1082/IMG_1214.JPG
Kamijo Shinzan

20th century
Kamijo Shinzan

20th century
Kamijo Shinzan 20th century
Kamijo Shinzan

20th century
http://sketchuni
verse.files.word
press.com/201
2/05/kamijo-
shinzan-stars-
in-the-sky-
flowers-on-the-
earth.jpg
Tanaka Setsuzan

Tanaka Setsuzan
Tanaka Setsuzan
Tanaka Setsuzan

Tanaka Setsuzan
http://sketchuniverse.files.wordpre
ss.com/2012/05/tanaka-setsuzan-
torrent.jpg
Uozumi Keizan b 1946
http://www.britishmuseum.org/r
esearch/search_the_collection
_database/search_object_ima
ge.aspx
 Uozumi Keizan b 1946
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_i
mage.aspx
Uozumi Keizan
b 1946
http://www.britishmu
seum.org/research/s
earch_the_collection
_database/search_o
bject_image.aspx
 Uozumi Keizan b 1946
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_i
mage.aspx
Uozumi Keizan
b 1946
http://www.britishmuseum
.org/research/search_the
_collection_database/sea
rch_object_image.aspx
Uozumi Keizan b 1946
http://www.britishmuseum.
org/research/search_the_
collection_database/searc
h_object_image.aspx
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan
Arteni
(Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
A haiku by
Kobayashi Issa
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
A haiku by Kobayashi Issa
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
Painting calligraphy
Fujiwara no
Tameie?
13th century
http://www.artfixda
ily.com/artwire/rel
ease/1744-asia-
week-new-york-
rolls-out-an-8-day-
extravaganza-of-
gallery-ope
Soen Shun'oku 16th-17th centuries (Rinzai sect)
www.vajragallery.com/paintings/p0021.html
 Edo period 18th century?
http://www.asianart.com/Bach
mannEckenstein/large/1930-
2.jpg
Ike no Taiga 1723-1776 collection of H. Christopher Luce
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libbyrosof/480691317/
 Ike no Taiga 1723-1776
http://www.manyoancollection.org/collection/works/detail/56/121/
Tetsumon Doju 1710-1781
(Soto sect)
http://web.kyoto-
inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9022.html
 Sengai Gibon 1750 - 1837 (Rinzai sect)
http://0.tqn.com/d/arthistory/1/0/_/n/aaca_gugg_0109_01.jpg
A bamboo (pipe) leads water
toward my place
Mugaku Bun'eki
1818-1897 (Rinzai sect)
http://www.asianart.com/Bachm
annEckenstein/3.html
 From Morning to Evening (let your spirit) Soar
pair of twofold screens
Meiji period
www.japanesescreens.com/items/6303_6303_A_pair_of_twofold_pape...
Deiryu 1895-1954 (Rinzai sect) www.asianart.com/exhibitions/boaf2006/index.html
20th century www.japanesescreens.com/items/6530_6530A_sixfold_paper_screen_...
Suzuki Suiken 1889-1976
http://www.nagaragawagarou.com/
sakuhin/suiken-h008.html
Fujii Tatsukichi
1881-1964
http://www.nagarag
awagarou.com/sak
uhin/tatsukichi-
g011.html
Ohashi Korin 1901 - 1983
http://jyuluck-do.com/sp702583-
japanese-calligraphy-drawing.jpg
 Miyasaka Michiyo 20th century
jyuluck-do.com/BrandNewCalligraphy.html
 Sawada Kyoshu
20th century
jyuluck-do.com/sp70224.html
Shinden Inaba 1906-1986
(Rinzai sect)
http://shogaya.com/indexe.html
Yamada Mumon 1900-1988
(Rinzai sect)
http://web.kyoto-
inet.or.jp/org/jikyu-an/9061.html
Teshima
Yukei
http://www.pix
elcreation.fr/fil
eadmin/img/s
as_image/gal
erie/illustratio
n/Calligraphie
%20japonais
e/02%20teshi
ma_yukei.jpg
 Muroi Gensyo
http://medias.slash.fr/main_images/images/000/003/545/01_33_muroi_gensyo_large.jpg?13303654
33
Yanagi Hekisen http://www.officiel-galeries-musees.com/uploads/expositions/92824166156471bb36489e3870776860ea7b6af5.jpg
Kamijo Shinzan 20th century
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni (Geizan)
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
Form supersedes readability
Yamaoka Tesshu 1836-1888
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.ht
ml
Kouji.Takahashi, owner of Antique
Art Rakunan-Japanese Hanging
Scrolls, the company which sells
this work, declares: I am not able
to read this calligraphy
.
Yamaoka Tesshu 1836-1888
http://www.shogaya.com/indexe.ht
ml
Kouji.Takahashi, owner of Antique
Art Rakunan-Japanese Hanging
Scrolls, the company which sells
this work, declares: I am not able
to read this calligraphy
A haiku by
Kobayashi
Issa
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)
Centre
column: one
character
appears to
be missing
Dragon
Stefan Arteni
(Geizan)