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Calligraphy
Also titled Kalligrafie
Dokushō (1617–1694)
1617 - 1694
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 0 cm x width 0 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift F. Hess, 2018)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
With this calligraphic inscription, Dokusho put ‘doing’ at the centre. He contended that one cannot properly understand oneself through rational analysis, but rather by directly engaging with Zen practice.
