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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mugaku Bun'eki, Ensō Circle with Calligraphy: In Heaven and on Earth, Only I Am Worthy of Respect, ca 1878–1883
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mugaku Bun'eki, Ensō Circle with Calligraphy: In Heaven and on Earth, Only I Am Worthy of Respect, ca 1878–1883
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Mugaku Bun'eki, Ensō Circle with Calligraphy: In Heaven and on Earth, Only I Am Worthy of Respect, ca 1878–1883

Mugaku Bun'eki

Ensō Circle with Calligraphy: In Heaven and on Earth, Only I Am Worthy of Respect, ca 1878–1883
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Overall size 72.5 x 26 in. (184 x 66 cm)
Image size 42¼ x 22¾ in. (107 x 58.1 cm)
T-3749
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Signed at left Mugaku, Chief Abbot of Myōshinji, with a kaō and seals 'Authentic lineage of the Rinzai', 'seal of Mugaku', and Bun'eki Written in three lines of four, three,...
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Signed at left Mugaku, Chief Abbot of Myōshinji, with a kaō and seals "Authentic lineage of the Rinzai", "seal of Mugaku", and Bun'eki

Written in three lines of four, three, and one character respectively, the eight-character calligraphy under the ensō circle reads "In Heaven and on Earth, Only I Am Worthy of Respect", the first words uttered by the Buddha when he emerged from the side of his mother Maya and took seven steps forward, pointing to heaven with his right hand and earth with his left.

A prominent Zen priest, in 1878 Mugaku Bun'eki attained the title Daikyōshō and became Chief Abbott of Myōshinji Temple; he retired to Zuisenji Temple in Owari Province in 1883.
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