Three Poems on Zen and Society’s Decline, 1465

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IKKYU SOJUN (JAPAN, 1394-1481)
Three Poems on Zen and Society’s Decline, 1465
Signed and dated Kansei rokunen gansei (1465, New Year’s day) daito gosei seidenjun Ikkyu, sealed Ikkyu
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
12 3⁄8 x 20 1⁄4 in. (31.4 x 51.4 cm.)
With a paper certificate of authentication (kiwame fuda) by Kohitsu Ryochu (1820-1891)

Provenance

Hara Sankei (1868-1939), Yokohama
Hiraki Collection
Setsu Gatodo, Tokyo, 8 Oct. 2001

Literature

Nakagawa Kazumasa, ed., Bokuseki Ikkyu Sojun (Calligraphy by Ikkyu Sojun) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1986), no. 93
Hirano Sojo and Terayama Tanchu, eds., Ikkyu Bokuseki (Ikkyu’s calligraphy) (Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1997), no. 26
Tayama Honan, ed., Zenrin Bokuseki shui – Nihonhen (Collection of calligraphies by Zen monks – Japan) (Tokyo: Zenrin Bokuseki kankokai,1977), no. 181

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