"Snow": calligraphy scroll / Muan Xingtao (aka (J. Ôbaku Mokuan))
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- Accession Number
- 1986/1.205
- Title
- "Snow": calligraphy scroll
- Artist Nationality
- Chinese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1611-1684
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1655-1675
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- China (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- China (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Zen
- Inscription
- Signature and three seals of the artist
- Dimensions
- 28.42 cm x 66.52 cm (11 3/16 in. x 26 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- calligraphy
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Physical Description
- The large character for snow in block script is juxtaposed with lines of smaller characters in running script. The large character is drawn with unhurried, thick, even strokes in dense, unbroken black ink with blunt contours, while the smaller characters are brushed rapidly, with strokes of varying thickness, a pronounced diagonal tilt, and sharp edges.
- Subject Matter
- Muan Xingtao (known in Japan as Mokuan) was a native of Fujian, China. He took his monastic vows at Wanfusi Monastery at the age of eighteen and in 1655 followed his mentor to Japan, where he helped to found several monasteries. Muan became the second abbot of Manpukuji in Uji, the great Ôbaku Zen sect’s monastery on the southern outskirts of Kyoto.
- The calligraphy reads, “Snow: the fragrance of the plum blossoms in snow catches my nose.”
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- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- writing (processes)
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1463 x 645
- File Size
- 97 KB
- Record
- 1986/1.205
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""Snow": calligraphy scroll; Muan Xingtao (aka (J. Ôbaku Mokuan))." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.205/1986_1.205.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 02, 2024.