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NAKAHARA NANTENBŌ 中原南天棒 (1839–1925) Taisho era (1912-1926), 1917 (2) image 1
NAKAHARA NANTENBŌ 中原南天棒 (1839–1925) Taisho era (1912-1926), 1917 (2) image 2
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NAKAHARA NANTENBŌ 中原南天棒 (1839–1925)
Taisho era (1912-1926), 1917

3 – 11 November 2025, 10:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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NAKAHARA NANTENBŌ 中原南天棒 (1839–1925)

Taisho era (1912-1926), 1917
Calligraphy and Scoop
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on silk in silk mounts: A bamboo chabishaku (freshwater ladle for chanoyu) and poem; signed Nantenbō Tōjū Nanajūkyū-ō; with a wood storage box
Overall: 123 × 46.5cm (48 1/2 × 18 1/4in); image: 27.5 × 35.5cm (10 7/8 × 14in) (2).

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Oranda Jin, 's-Hertogenbosch, 2009

Nakahara Nantenbō was, after Hakuin Ekaku (1686–1769) probably the most celebrated exponent of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buodhism in the last 500 years. A radical reformer and an accomplished and prolific artist, he laid the foundations for the later development of Zen into the global religious and philosophical movement that it is today. In his later years, Nantenbō increasingly used painting and calligraphy as a means of expressing the Zen spirit that lies beyond words.

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