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Celebrating the Legacy of Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryuki) and the Art of Ōbaku

Celebrating the Legacy of Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryuki) and the Art of Ōbaku

PLUM by Muan Xingtao (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō)

Plum
Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō, 1611-1684)
Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
33.2 cm x 61 cm, 133.5 cm x 76.3 cm (mounted)
Collection of Harald Conrad

梅 不是一番寒徹骨、爭得梅花撲鼻香
Plum – If it were not for a turn of bone-piercing cold,
How could we have the plum’s tingling scent?
—Trans. following “Fung Ping Shan Museum University of Hong Kong: An Exhibition
of
Huangpo Chan / Ōbaku Zen Calligraphy and Painting, Hong Kong 1989, p. 19.”