Obaku Zen Portrait Painting
Author | : Elizabeth Horton Sharf |
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Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Horton Sharf |
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Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Calligraphy, Zen |
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Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : Galit Aviman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351536109 |
In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this liberated attitude in the lives and artwork of Edo period Zen monk-painters. This book explores the playfulness and free-spirited attitude reflected in the artwork of two prominent Japanese Zen monk-painters: Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768) and Sengai Gibon (1750-1837). The free attitude emanating from their paintings is one of the qualities which distinguish Edo period Zen paintings from those of earlier periods. These paintings are part of a Zen ink painting tradition that began following the importation of Zen Buddhism from China at the beginning of the Kamakura period (1185-1333). In this study, Aviman elaborates on the nature of this particular artistic expression and identifies its sources, focusing on the lives of the monk-painters and their artwork. The author applies a multifaceted approach, combining a holistic analysis of the paintings, i.e. as interrelated combination of text and image, with a contextualization of the works within the specific historical, art historical, cultural, social and political environments in which they were created.
Author | : Hiroshi Kanazawa |
Publisher | : Kodansha |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : New Orleans Museum of Art |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Sumie |
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Author | : Yasuichi Awakawa |
Publisher | : Kodansha |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Art |
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The collection of ink paintings reproduced here brings Zen directly to the eye. Wild spontaneity, irreverence and humor; conciseness that transforms familiar things into raw, essential forms; use of space to suggest, simultaneously, limitless depth and nothing at all - these paintings by both priest-painters and professional artists bear witness to Zen in a way that words cannot. At the same time, this book reveals the magnificently varied effects that can be achieved with Chinese ink and brush. THE AUTHOR: Born in 1902 and trained as an economist, the late Yasuichi Awakawa wrote polifically and lectured throughout Japan and in Europe about Zen painting. He was professor of economics at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
Author | : Albert Welter |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2022-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438490909 |
This volume focuses on Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread across East Asia, with special attention to its impacts on Korean Sŏn and Japanese Zen. Zen enthralled the scholarly world throughout much of the twentieth century, and Zen Studies became a major academic discipline in its wake. Interpreted through the lens of Japanese Zen and its reaction to events in the modern world, Zen Studies incorporated a broad range of Zen-related movements in the East Asian Buddhist world. As broad as the scope of Zen Studies was, however, it was clearly rooted in a Japanese context, and aspects of the "Zen experience" that did not fit modern Japanese Zen aspirations tended to be marginalized and ignored. Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies acknowledges the move beyond Zen Studies to recognize the changing and growing parameters of the field. The volume also examines the modern dynamics in each of these traditions.
Author | : Jiang Wu |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199393133 |
"This book tells the story of Chinese Zen master Yinyuan's journey from China to Japan amid the turmoil of the Manchu conquest of China. Despite tremendous difficulties, he persuaded the Shogun to build for him a new monastery (Manpukuji) in Kyoto and founded his own tradition called Obaku"--
Author | : Shōkin Furuta |
Publisher | : Kodansha |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Calligraphy, Japanese |
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"Sengai: Master Zen Painter is the portrait of a Japanese Zen priest of the mid-eighteenth century whose work embodies the essence of humor in the Zen tradition. Sengai was a Zen master with a profound insight into life, but more importantly he was able to express this insight in ink paintings and calligraphy that are replete with wisdom, simplicity, and humor." "Sengai is a revealing look at his entire life - from his childhood when he was placed in a Zen temple because of family financial difficulties to the time of his retirement as abbot of the historical Shofukuji temple. The focus is on the humor that characterizes not only his work but Zen itself, the symbolic representation of enlightenment in his work, and the lessons that he has to teach modern man." "For those interested in Zen, calligraphy, or art, Sengai is the fascinating story of how these disciplines can be fully integrated in the being of one remarkable man."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved