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Bunsho's Monks

This is the direction my dream, the night before last, was supposed to go instead of tangenting to Fritz Lang! ;-)

 

As I noted earlier, I'd been thinking a lot about and viewing the works of Kasumi Bunsho.

 

Bunsho shared a fondness with Nantembo (an earlier Zen sumi-e master) for depicting lines of monks heading off on their begging rounds, the practice to instill humbleness and gratitude in the monks.

 

Bunsho was the 642nd abbot of Myoshin-ji, the head temple of the Rinzai sect of Zen.

 

So! Here I can't say this is 'in the style of' Bunsho -as I'm used Caran D'Ache Neocolor II crayons, rather than sumi (ink), but at least in the spirit of...

 

Neocolor II on 12"X12" colored stock.

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Uploaded on April 12, 2010
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