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Hashimoto Dokuzan (1869-1938)
Zenga
Landscape
Signed: Taiunsô
Seals: Dokuzan, Taiun, .. (tp)
Technique: sumi on paper 114 x 32.8
Date: 1938
Mounting: light brown decorated damask 186.5 x 45.7
Box: signed double box
Condition: fine

Dokuzan was born in Niigata. He became 128th generation Kanchô (superintendent) of the Shôkoku-ji branch. The former Zen master of Shôkoku-ji monastery.

From Gazan Shôtei (1853-1900) he received his his inka, certification of enlightenment. He also practiced Zen at the Tenryû-ji under Ryôen Genseki (1842-1918). He aspired to be a painter and studied with Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924). In 1900 he became the abbot of Rokuou-in. He was invited to be Zen master of Nanshu-ji monastery in Sakai, Osaka in 1910 and moved to Shôkoku-ji to be the chief abbot of the Shokoku-ji branch and Zen master of Shôkoku-ji monastery in 1911. He retired to Rinko-in in 1921, but in 1927 he founded the Nan'en-ji in Tottori Prefecture.

Reference:
Shotenkaku bijutsukan 1988
Moog p. 82

WAS: € 1.000,- ($ 1,080)

Price:
SOLD