Vintage Japanese Scroll Enso Boxed Fukumoto Sekio 無一物 Muichimotsu No Possesions


Imported by myself, around 10 years ago. I do not know it’s age. In excellent condition. Approximate measurements: 50” x 22”

This is the description of this scroll when I purchased it from Japan ...

Japanese Tea Ceremony Scroll : Daitoku-ji FUKUMOTO SEKIO "Enso and 無一物 Muichimotsu" w/box  

*Fukumoto Sekio 福本 積應 (1930~)  :
Fukumoto Sekio is 17th chief priest of Horin-ji temple.

*円相 Ensō (The symbolic circle) :
Ensō is a Japanese word meaning "circle" and a concept strongly associated with Zen. Ensō is perhaps the most common subject of Japanese calligraphy even though it is a symbol and not a character. It symbolizes enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and the void; it can also symbolize the Japanese aesthetic itself. As an "expression of the moment" it is often considered a form of expressionist art.
In Zen Buddhists painting, ensō symbolizes a moment when the mind is free to simply let the body/spirit create. The brushed ink of the circle is usually done on silk or rice paper in one movement (but the great Bankei used two strokes sometimes) and there is no possibility of modification: it shows the expressive movement of the spirit at that time. Zen Buddhists "believe that the character of the artist is fully exposed in how she or he draws an ensō. Only a person who is mentally and spiritually complete can draw a true ensō. Some artists will practice drawing an ensō daily, as a kind of spiritual exercise." 

*無一物 Muichimotsu (No possessions) :
It is known as the word of the sixth Zen Master. "I have neither the going to paradise that I should need it nor the worldly desires that I should abandon. It is originally having no possessions, there is not anything else to be seized, dust, and there is not a place to be on to spread dust."
We deeply attach to oneself and one's possession. But actually we are born in nude to have nothing, part from a beloved person in the last and leave the world in having no possessions. But we think the mutable and uncertain thing to be usual, think the uncomfortable thing to be comfort, and deeply attach to worldly desires, hesitation and pains occur there.

Signature & Seal = Sekio.
Scroll Box = Original wooden box.
Primary Material = Paper.
Technique = Handpainted.
Roller Ends = Wood.Condition = Refer to all pictures.

Size = 63cm x 126.6cm / 24.8" x 49.8"

This has only been out of the box when I first purchased it to check it was as described. Life has now taken a different turn for me and it is time for someone else to enjoy it. 

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