Lot 60: INGEN RYUKI (1592-1673) Calligraphy: Daruma, The Great Patriarch Edo period (1615-1868), mid-16th century

INGEN RYUKI (1592-1673)
Calligraphy: Daruma, The Great Patriarch
Edo period (1615-1868), mid-16th century
Hanging scroll, ink on paper; with calligraphy Shoso Daruma Daishi (Daruma, The Great Patriarch) signed Obaku Ingen sho (Written by Obaku Ingen), with succession seal Rinzai seishu (The true Rinzai line) and calligrapher's seals Ryuki no in (Seal of Ryuki) and Ingen in (Seal of Ingen)
With wood tomobako
53 x 11 5/8in (134.5 x 29.5cm)

Provenance:
John Stevens Collection

Ingen Ryuki (in Chinese, Yinyuan Longqi) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who entered the Zen (Chan) center at Mount Obaku (Huangbo) in 1620 and traveled in 1654 to Japan, where he won the respect of both the Tokugawa shogunate and the imperial court. The shogunate granted him land at Uji near Kyoto, where he built Manpukuji Temple in 1661 and established the Japanese branch of the Obaku sect. This striking scroll expresses Ingen's reverence for Daruma (Bodhidharma), the Indian founder of Zen.