Clouds
Wuxin Xingjue 無心性覚 (Jp. Mushin Shōkaku, 1613-
1671)
Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
Temple signboard, lacquer and gold on wood
27.8 cm x 54.5 cm, 40 cm x 66.5 cm (outer frame)
Collection of Harald Conrad
雲邊木馬飛如電
海底泥牛吼似雷
A wooden horse flashes through the clouds,
A clay ox thunders beneath the waves.
—trans. by Bill Porter in The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, Port Townsend:
Copper Canyon Press 2014, pp. 55