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Tōkei Sōboku 東渓宗牧 Japanese
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An important figure in Kyoto Zen Buddhist circles, Sōboku was the seventy-second abbot of the Daitokuji Temple complex and founded its Ryōgen’in subtemple in 1502.
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東渓宗牧書 墨蹟
Title: Calligraphy
Artist:
Tōkei Sōboku 東渓宗牧 (Japanese, 1454–1517)
Period: Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Date: late 15th–early 16th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions:
Image: 15 3/16 × 22 1/16 in. (38.5 × 56 cm)
Overall with mounting: 46 7/8 × 28 3/4 in. (119 × 73 cm)
Classification: Calligraphy
Credit Line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019
Accession Number: 2019.420.7
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