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Zen Circle
Also titled Zen-cirkel
Tokuō Ryōkō (1649–1709)
1680 - 1709
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 166 cm x width 35.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (bequest F. Hess, 2023)
- 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
A Zen painting serves as an additional aid to those on the path of Zen in search of enlightenment. Among the familiar motifs is a painted circle. Here it is accompanied by the calligraphed question ‘What is this?’ along with totsu, an exclamation intended to catalyze a sudden insight in the disciple.
