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Sengai Gibon (1750-1837)
Yawning Hotei
Sealed Sengai
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
13 1/8 x 22¼in. (33.5 x 56.5cm.)

Lot Essay

The poem reads:

Yo mo sugara seishi nehan o mishi yume wa
Ikani hotoke ni osoware ni keru


Dreaming of nirvana, life and death is just like being attacked by the Buddha.

For another example, see Awakawa Yasuichi, Zen Painting (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970), pl. 114.

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