MOKUAN SHOTO (1611-84)

CALLIGRAPHY

細節
MOKUAN SHOTO (1611-84)
Calligraphy
Hanging scroll; in sumi on paper, mounted on silk, creased and some restoration, framed and glazed
Signed Mokuan Shoto and sealed
11 x 20½in. (28 x 52.2cm.)

拍品專文

Mokuan Shoto was a priest of the Rinzai sect and came to Japan from China in 1655 to help found the Obaku Zen sect. The suiboku paintings he produced were highly prized and he was known as one of the "Three Brushes" of the Obaku sect.