Landscape, Kawabata Gyokusho. Album leaf; ink and color on silk.
River Scene with Rocky Hills in Background, Kawabata Gyokusho. Album leaf; ink and color on silk.
Koyasan (Mount Koya) by Crystalline Radical on Flickr.
Monk Chōgen Shunjōbō 重源俊乗坊,circa 1206. Hollow assembled woodblocks with traces of pigment.
H = 81.8 cm.
National Treasure, Tōdaiji.
Rosenfield calls this one of Japan’s oldest surviving examples of true portraiture, one that expresses a “renewed taste for realism” and heralds “many traits of Japanese culture in the centuries to come.” Photography by Hiyashizaki Tomoo, photo fromNara National Museum.
Sukhi Barber, Appearance/Emptiness
Moonlight over the Pond, Chao Shao-an, 1969, horizontal scroll, ink and color on paper.
Hydrangea, Chao Shao-an, 1960s, album leaf, ink and color on paper.
Buddist Monk, Chao Shao-an, undated, ink on paper.
“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.” - Bodhidharma
Japanese Botanic
Sekino Jun’ichiro, Izuka Spa, woodblock print.
Ma Shouzhen, Bamboo, Rocks, and Orchids, late 16th century, ink on gold-flecked paper
Bamboo, orchids, and rocks, 1392-1568, Muromachi period, ink on paper
