# Rice Stamper

- By: Miura Jōten (1872–1985)
- Date: 1872 - 1958
- Medium: paper, ink
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 65.2 cm x width 34.3 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift F. Hess, 2018)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-1801--1a0ab9e917d752e56d870059f874ddf5)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/98070a0e81bb52a1a56e1c4e6c862a5c.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.