Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)

Mount Fuji

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Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)
Mount Fuji
Sealed Rinzai Seishu, Hakuin and Ekaku
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
15¼ x 22 1/8in. (38.7 x 56.2cm.)
Box titled, signed and sealed by Arima Raitei (b. 1933), 7th abbot (kancho) of the Shokokuji school of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism

Lot Essay

The poem reads:

Ofujisan kasumi no kosode nugashanse
Yuki no hadae ga mitou gozansu

Ms. Ofuji (Mount Fuji), take off your hazy robe,
I want to see your snowy skin.

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