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拍品专文
The artist derives his name Nantenbo from his staff (bo) cut from a 200-year-old Nanten tree (nandina). He used the staff to instruct his students. Born into a samurai family in northwestern Kyushu, he began his training at a Zen temple at age eleven. At seventeen he moved to Kyoto for further training, then spent his life in travel and teaching. He became abbot of Zuiganji Temple in Matsushima and then abbot of Kaiseiji. He was responsible for promoting the revival of Zen in the early twentieth century.
John Stevens has noted that the inscription is Nantenbo's trademark. It has the meaning "Speak glibly of Zen and you will get a good whack of my stick; feigning understanding by staying mute won't fool me either--you will still get a good whack." He never spared the rod, and brushed hundreds of rod, or staff paintings.
For an example in the Gitter-Yelen Collection, see Zen Mind, Zen Brush: Japanese paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, exh. cat. (New South Wales: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006), pl. 61.
John Stevens has noted that the inscription is Nantenbo's trademark. It has the meaning "Speak glibly of Zen and you will get a good whack of my stick; feigning understanding by staying mute won't fool me either--you will still get a good whack." He never spared the rod, and brushed hundreds of rod, or staff paintings.
For an example in the Gitter-Yelen Collection, see Zen Mind, Zen Brush: Japanese paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, exh. cat. (New South Wales: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006), pl. 61.