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涅槃寂静 | THE COLLECTION OF DAVID AND NAYDA UTTERBERG (LOTs 1-20)

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IKKYU SOJUN (JAPAN, 1394-1481)
Three Poems on Zen and Society’s Decline, 1465
Signed and dated Kansei rokunen gansei (1465, New Year’s day)
daito gosei seidenjun Ikkyu, sealed Ikkyu
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
12¡ x 20º in. (31.4 x 51.4 cm.)
With a paper certificate of authentication (kiwame fuda) by
Kohitsu Ryochu (1820-1891)

$40,000-60,000
一休宗純筆 偈頌
PROVENANCE:
Hara Sankei (1868-1939), Yokohama
Hiraki Collection
Setsu Gatodo, Tokyo, 8 Oct. 2001
LITERATURE:
Nakagawa Kazumasa, ed., Bokuseki Ikkyu Sojun (Calligraphy by
Ikkyu Sojun) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1986), no. 93
Hirano Sojo and Terayama Tanchu, eds., Ikkyu Bokuseki (Ikkyu’s
calligraphy) (Tokyo: Shunjusha, 1997), no. 26
Tayama Honan, ed., Zenrin Bokuseki shui – Nihonhen (Collection
of calligraphies by Zen monks – Japan) (Tokyo: Zenrin Bokuseki
kankokai,1977), no. 181