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HAKUIN EKAKU (1685-1768)
Edo period (1615-1868), mid-18th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on paper mounted in silk,
depicting Daruma with his characteristic frown beneath
the well-known Zen Buddhist declaration Jikishin ninshin
kensho jobutsu (Point directly to the human heart, see
your own nature and become Buddha), sealed Kokan’i,
Hakuin and Ekaku; with a wooden storage box.
Overall: 165cm x 46.5cm (65in x 18¼in);
image: 79cm x 30cm (31 1/8in x 11¾in). (2).

£7,000 - 8,000
JPY1,100,000 - 1,200,000
US$9,900 - 11,000

For a similar example of this striking subject, a favourite
with Hakuin in his later years, see Audrey Yoshiko Seo and
Stephen Addiss, The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and
Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin, Boston, Shambhala
Publications, 2010, plate 3.1.
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I’NEN SEAL
Edo period (1615-1868),
second half of the 17th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on paper in silk mounts,
depicting the Shisui (Four Sleepers): a tiger, Bukan,
Kanzan and a barely visible Jittoku, sealed Inen; with a
lacquered wooden storage box.
Overall: 168cm x 67cm (66 1/8in x 26 3/8in);
image: 63cm x 47.5cm (24¾in x 18¾in). (2).

£30,000 - 50,000
JPY4,500,000 - 7,600,000
US$42,000 - 71,000

Exhibited and Published
Kaneko Nobuhisa and Oto Yumiko, Dobutsu kaiga
no 250nen (250 Years of Animal Pictures), exhibition
catalogue, Fuchu, Fuchu Art Museum,, 2015, cat. 40

The Shisui (Four Sleepers, in Chinese Sishui) comprise a
tiger and a group of three Tang-dynasty eccentrics whose
composure in the company of such a ferocious beast
illustrates the tranquillity and detachment of Buddhist
enlightenment; two fourteen-century versions of the
subject, one Chinese and one Japanese, are published in
Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippitt, Awakenings: Zen Figure
Painting in Medieval Japan, New York, Japan Society,
2007, cat. nos.15, 16. In the early seventeenth century
the subject was revived by the leading painter Tawaraya
Sotatsu (active circa 1600-1640); for a related example
in the Gitter-Yelen collection, see Stephen Addiss et al.,
A Myriad of Autumn Leaves: Japanese Art from the Kurt
and Millie Gitter Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art,
1983, cat. no.10. Like the present lot, that painting bears
a round seal reading I’nen that was used first by Sotatsu
and then by his disciples and followers.

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