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Japanese Scroll of Form is Emptiness (shikisoku zekū) — Calligraphy by Eri Takase

Form is Emptiness (shikisoku zekū)

色即是空
shikisoku zekū

12 1/4" W x 43" H Japanese Scroll
by Master Japanese Calligrapher Eri Takase

$220

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Master Takase personally brushes your Japanese scroll when you order. Scroll hand-mounted in Gifu, Japan, by the same maker for two decades. Each scroll is a personal work of art, not a print, and proudly bears her seal and signature. The scroll has silk borders and fine Japanese paper, layered so it hangs straight and will not warp over time.

12 1/4" × 43" (31 × 109 cm)

Description

Form is Emptiness in Japanese is 色即是空 which is read shikisoku zekū

色即是空 (shikisoku zekū): form is emptiness. The line is from the Heart Sutra, in the Chinese of 649, and it is half of a sentence: the next four characters, 空即是色, say emptiness is form. Everything that has form has no fixed nature of its own, and emptiness is nowhere but in form. A Noh play makes it an affirmation: because form is emptiness just as it is, the willow is green. All is vanity is a dictionary's third gloss for the line; the two share a word only in Japanese, where the Meiji Bible chose the sutra's 空 for the Preacher's vanity.

Philology of 色即是空

Delivery

The scroll is completed within 1–3 business days and is shipped from Master Takase's studio in Washington State by USPS Priority Mail. It arrives ready to display.

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