Kaze Wind
by Yamamoto Gempo (1886-1961)
WIND (KAZE) The 96-year-old fellow Hannya* Gempo's Zen master name
Japanese artists are fond of the single character kaze, "wind." The most famous work of art by the celebrated Mingei artist and "Human Natural Treasure" Serizawa Keisuke was a stencil-dyed print of the character for "wind." This is Gempo's hand brushed "wind." It can mean "fresh breeze," "nature's beauty," "style," even "the flow of time." Gempo did not learn how to read and write until he was almost forty, and there is something extraordinarily pure and direct about his brushwork. Brushed in the last year of his life, this is an especially fine piece.
About the
Artist
Gempo, long-time abbot of Ryutaku-ji, and briefly head prelate of the Myoshin-ji branch of Zen, was perhaps the most outstanding and influential of the 20th-century Zen masters. Gempo was called the "modern Hakuin," and he was the master of Nakagawa Soen, among many others. Nearly blind, he did not learn how to read or write until later in life. Gempo's brushwork is simple, direct, and unaffected, pure Zen art.
Other Scrolls
by Yamamoto Gempo:
Enso
Fan
Monk
Moon Enso
Daruma
SCROLL DETAILS
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Price: SOLD
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Notes:
Newly restored with beautiful new mounting, wooden box, and in good condition. Since this was originally a page in an album, the paper has a slight, unobtrusive crease in the center. Absolutely wonderful scroll by perhaps the most important Zen Master of the 20th century.
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Dimensions
(inches): 21.00" (width) x 48.00" (height)
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Reference
Number: 207
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