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Early Edo Japanese Buddhist Calligraphy Scroll, Jukai browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Devotional Objects: Pre 1800: item # 685213 Please refer to our stock # ALR2223 when inquiring.
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| Gray ink fades into the dark paper ground of this 17th century Buddhist Mandala style scroll signed Jukai Kyoshi Hitsu (written by Master Jukai). The enigmatic figures are brushed in a bold posture with speed and confidence, the cycle of constant brush dipping allowing a steadily repeating pattern of dry and wet strokes which somehow calls to light the cycle of life and all that entails in Buddhist doctrine. Quite angular at moments as the characters cant this way and that down the page, it is yet interspersed with curves, the wetter strokes curiously fading out on rounded edges. An eye-catching style, one cannot help but return again and again to contemplate the orator and his manifest. The Name Jukai can be translated Teacher of the Ten realms, as Jukai is a reference to the ten realms of existence (hell, realm of demons, animal world, human world, angel realm, realm of Buddhas etc) as well as (Tendai Sect) the ten layers of the human heart, a reference to the fact that all people, depending upon their experience and feeling at any given time, will interpret and be affected by an event differently. The scroll is 18 by 62 inches (46 x 157 cm) and is in good original condition taking age into consideration. Bordered in patterned green silk it has certainly been remounted at some time in the very distant past (Edo period) and features precious ivory rollers, a rarity in Buddhist art. The scroll is likely from the Jodo Shu or Tendai Shu sects of Japanese Buddhism. . | ||||||||
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