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Skull by Zen Priest Takeda Mokurai, Japanese Art Scroll browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Paintings: Pre 1920: item # 911339 Please refer to our stock # ALR2621 when inquiring.
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| A very rare painting of a skull and scattered bones lost to autumns dead grasses by important 20th century Zen priest Takeda Mokurai. The forgotten creature grins garishly, a blade of grass growing playfully through one eye socket. @This may be the only skull I have seen by Mokurai, a certain rarity in Zen painting. The ink on paper image is bordered in brown cloth with gray extensions and features dark wood rollers. It measures 16 by 68 cm (40.5 x 172.5 cm) and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a period wooden box. Mokurai began his journey down the Buddhist path at the age of 7 under the priest Ryodo. Developing under a number of masters, it was during a sojourn in Hakata he developed a love for poetry and calligraphy, something for which he would later be greatly remembered, for in later days his scholar script was highly prized. He finally settled under Yuzen Gentatsu, from whom he received Inka. A pious man he was sent to Kyoto to work at Kenninji temple in the heart of Gion, the pleasure district. His exemplary performance there, and a series of unfortunate deaths left the young priest in charge of the sprawling complex. As a scholar priest he had great influence on the art of early 20th century Kyoto, as Zen practice was almost seen as a given for painters and ceramic artists of the time including Tsuji kako, Kiyomizu Rokubei and Ito Tozan among many others. For more information on this important Zen Master, see the art of 20th Century Zen by Stephen Addis and Audrey Yoshiko Seo. | ||||||||
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