This series consists of twelve large prints depicting the ten disciples of Buddha and two bodhisattvas; The disciple Kasenen, the Master of Fundamental Principles is associated with law and authority. The series won the Saburi prize of Tokyo's Kokugakai association in 1940, the year after it was first printed and, in the mid-1950s, won awards at the Sao Paulo Biennale and the Venice Biennale.

Munakata used the blocks for this series to line the walls of his bomb shelter in his Tokyo garden during the Pacific war. Although two of the blocks were destroyed when his house was bombed in 1945, the blocks for the ten disciples survived the war and he recarved the two bodhisattvas that had been lost.