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The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting
Author: John T. Carpenter
language: en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date: 2025-03-01
In East Asian cultures, the arts of poetry, calligraphy, and painting are traditionally referred to as the “Three Perfections.” This exhibition presents over 160 rare and precious works—all created in Japan over the course of nearly a millennium—that showcase the power and complexity of the three forms of art. Examples include folding screens with poems brushed on sumptuous decorated papers, dynamic calligraphy by Zen monks of medieval Kyoto, hanging scrolls with paintings and inscriptions alluding to Chinese and Japanese literary classics, ceramics used for tea gatherings, and much more. The majority of the works are among the more than 250 examples of Japanese painting and calligraphy donated or promised to The Met by Mary and Cheney Cowles, whose collection is one of the finest and most comprehensive assemblages of Japanese art outside Japan.
Japanese Calligraphy and Poetry in Transition
Author: Hermann Candahashi
language: en
Publisher: Hermann Candahashi
Release Date: 101-01-01
Japanese Calligraphy and Poetry in Transition – The Wonderful World of Brush and Poetry Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of Japanese calligraphy and poetry! This book combines the timeless beauty of Japanese calligraphy with the profound poetry of traditional haiku and tanka. Learn how calligraphy and poetry have changed over the centuries and discover the connection between aesthetic elegance, meditative art, and poetic expressiveness. Once again, the author Hermann Candahashi proves himself to be a connoisseur of Japanese culture and rightly enjoys a name with international renown. - Perfect for calligraphy lovers, Japan fans, and poetry enthusiasts. - Inspiring insights into Japanese art, culture, and the history of writing. - Zen and Writing - A harmonious blend of tradition and modernity. - Ideal for meditation, mindfulness, and creative inspiration. Whether you are an artist, a calligraphy lover, or simply fascinated by Japanese culture, this book will transport you in an accessible way to a world full of poetry, harmony, and artistic brushstrokes. Be inspired and discover the beauty of Japanese calligraphy in a philosophical way! Yours, Hermann Candahashi
The Poetry Demon
Author: Jason Protass
language: en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date: 2021-07-31
Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about the large corpora—roughly 30,000 extant poems—composed by these monastics. Protass addresses the oversight by using strategies associated with religious studies, literary studies, and sociology. He weaves together poetry with a wide range of monastic sources and in doing so argues against positing a “literary Chan” movement that wrote poetry as a path to awakening; he instead presents an understanding of monks’ poetry grounded in the Song discourse of monks themselves. The work begins by examining how monks fashioned new genres, created their own books, and fueled a monastic audience for monks’ poetry. It traces the evolution of gāthā from hymns found in Buddhist scripture to an independent genre for poems associated with Chan masters as living buddhas. While Song monastic culture produced a prodigious amount of verse, at the same time it promoted prohibitions against monks’ participation in poetry as a worldly or Confucian art: This constructive tension was an animating force. The Poetry Demon highlights this and other intersections of Buddhist doctrine with literary sociality and charts productive pathways through numerous materials, including collections of Chan “recorded sayings,” monastic rulebooks, “eminent monk” and “flame record” hagiographies, manuscripts of poetry, Buddhist encyclopedia, primers, and sūtra commentary. Two chapter-length case studies illustrate how Song monks participated in two of the most prominent and conservative modes of poetry of the time, those of parting and mourning. Protass reveals how monks used Chan humor with reference to emptiness to transform acts of separation into Buddhist teachings. In another chapter, monks in mourning expressed their grief and dharma through poetry. The Poetry Demon impressively uncovers new and creative ways to study Chinese Buddhist monks’ poetry while contributing to the broader study of Chinese religion and literature.