Title:
四部錄
Shiburoku
Editor: Shunyou Sanjin
Publisher: Hashiya Souhachi
Genroku 11 [1698]
10 woodblock illustrations. Softcover; (26cm x 19cm)
Cf.
Zenshū Shiburoku 禅宗四部錄
The Zenshū Shiburoku, The Four Texts of the Zen Sect, is a collection of four essential Zen texts which are being used in Japan as introductory texts in the education of novice Zen monks. The collection consists of the Jūgyūzu by Kakuan Shien (十牛圖 Shiniu tu by 廓庵師遠 Kuoan Shiyuan; The Ten Oxherding Pictures), the Shinjinmei by Kanchi Sōsan (信心銘 Xinxinming by 鑑智僧璨 Jianzhi Sengcan; Faith in Mind), the Shōdōka by Yōka Genkaku (證道歌 Zhengdao ge by 永嘉玄覚 Yongjia Xuanjue; Song of Enlightenment), and the Zazengi by Chōro Sōsaku (坐禪儀 Zuochan yi by 長蘆宗賾 Changlu Zongze; Models for Sitting Meditation).
I
Looking for the Cow
II
Seeing the Traces of the Cow
III
Seeing the Cow
IV
Catching the Cow
V
Herding the Cow
VI
Coming Home on the Cow's Back
[Missing: VII, VIII, IX]
X
Entering the City with Bliss-Bestowing Hands
Painting by a
Japanese artist, late 16th century
Jūgyūzu (Ten Oxherding Pictures)
Horizontal scroll by an unknown Japanese
painter of the late 16th century; (24.2 × 111 cm)
The New York Public Library: "Spencer Collection"
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/
The scenes are
enclosed within fan-shaped borders that occasionaly overlap in a decorative
manner to create the impression of scattered fan-paintings. This
Momoyama-period (1573-1615) work, painted in ink monochrome with a combination
of calligraphic, modulated brushstrokes and wash, was in all likelihood made by
an artist outside of the temple milieu rather than a monk-painter (hence its
incorrect sequence of episodes and the inclusion of the ox in Scene Seven.)
stages are out of order; stage 4
illustrated twice; stage 9 is missing
stage 2, stage 3
stage 6, stage 4, stage
5
stage 7, stage 4, stage
1
stage 8, stage 10
