Kyôyaki
Chawan, tea bowl - 碧層 - “Blue layer”Signed: Kaô (Mumon)
Seals: Tôraku
Technique: Grey gohonde kyôyaki, with black tetsu-e, iron oxide calligraphy Ø 12.2 x 7.9
Condition: fine
碧層 Hekisô, Blue layer
Mumon (Taishitsu) studied law in his youth, but was converted to the Buddhist life by a statement from Confucian theory: “Rather than become a lawyer, create a world where there is no need for courts.”
After taking the tonsure, he initially studied under Kawaguchi Ekai, the first Japanese Zen priest to visit Tibet. However after several years in isolation battling tuberculosis, he emerged to receive his certificate of enlightenment from Seisetsu Genjo, and went on to head a number of prominent Zen temples.
He was one of the most famous masters of the Rinzai sect in the 20th century. He was abbot of the Shofuku-ji in Kobe and the 639th generation abbot of Myoshin-ji in Kyoto, head of the Hanazono College and he established the Institute of Zen Culture.. During the 1960s he travelled to South-East Asian countries to apologize for Japanese aggression during the war.
Reference:
Moog p. 318
Dujin p. 55-61, 88-89
Price: EUR 600 / USD 648
