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Rice Stamper
Also titled Rijststamper
Miura Jōten (1872–1985)
1872 - 1958
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 65.2 cm x width 34.3 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
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Neither learning nor lineage play a role in the pursuit of enlightenment. This is a ‘portrait’ of Huineng, an illiterate layman who was nevertheless appointed Sixth Patriarch of the Zen school in China. He kept his enlightenment to himself for a long time and worked in the temple’s grain store, pounding rice.
