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Sources
This course is based on excerpts from Zen Art for Meditation, by Stewart W. Holmes and Chimyo Horioka (Tuttle Publishing, 1978).
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Illustrations
Introduction
"Landscape with Flock of Flying
Birds," anonymous,
12th century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Lesson 1
"Man on Water Buffalo Returning from a Village Feast,"
attributed to Li T'ang, 12th century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Bare Willows and Distant Mountains," Ma Yuan,
12-13th centuries (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Lesson 2
"The Four Sleepers," Mokuan, 14th century (Maeda Ikutoku-kai,
Tokyo)
"Bamboo and Sparrow," Kao, 14th century (Yamato Bunka Museum,
Nara)
Lesson 3
"Shrike," Niten (Miyamoto Musashi), 17th century (Sotaro
Kubo collection, Izumi)
"Landscape: Houses on a Lake," attributed to Shubun,
16th
century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Lesson 4
"Hotei," Mokuan, 14th century (Hakone
Museum)
"Bird Flying over Abyss," Liang K'ai, 13th century (Hakone
Museum)
Lesson 5
"A Fish," anonymous, ca. 14th century
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Hunting Heron," Ryosen, 14th century (Nagachika
Asano collection, Tokyo)
Lesson 6
"Patriarch Hui-neng Tearing a Sutra Scroll," Liang
K'ai,
13th century (Takaharu Mitsui collection, Tokyo)
"Monkey Reaching for the Moon," Tohaku, 16th-17th
centuries (Ryusen-an collection, Hanazono Myoshin-ji,
Kyoto)
"Three Sages Laughing on Rozan Bridge," Shohaku, 18th
century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Lesson 7
"Nine Dragons Scroll" (detail, part V), Ch'en
Jung, 13th
century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
"Li Po," Liang K'ai, 13th century (Tokyo
National Museum)
Lesson 8
"Bodhidharma," Kei Shoki, 15th century (Nanzen-ji
collection, Kyoto)
"Landscape with Figures Going up a Hill," Kei Shoki,
15th
century (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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