Kasennen (Katyayana) — one of the Ten Great Disciples, renowned as the foremost expounder of the Buddha's brief sayings, whose gift was the ability to develop and clarify the Dharma's most compact formulations into their full meaning — appears in this print carved in 1939 and printed in 1955, from the "Two Bodhisattva and Ten Great Disciples" series. Katyayana's gift for elaboration and explication — taking a brief, concentrated statement and unfolding all its implications — had an obvious resonance for Munakata, who understood his printmaking as similarly extracting the full energy latent in the woodblock's surface.
1960
Woodblock print
Shôwa period, 1926-1989
Woodblock print
1939-68
Woodblock print
1939 (printed 1955)
Woodblock print
伏見稲荷
Woodblock print
c. 1832/38
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
Uji Byodoin no ichibu
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kasennen (Katyayana), from the series "Two Bodhisattva and Ten Great Disciples of Buddha Sakyamuni (Nibosatsu Shaka judai deshi)" was created by Shiko Munakata (棟方志功) in 1939 (printed 1955).
Yes — Kasennen (Katyayana), from the series "Two Bodhisattva and Ten Great Disciples of Buddha Sakyamuni (Nibosatsu Shaka judai deshi)" is part of the Two Bodhisattva and Ten Great Disciples of Buddha Sakyamuni (Nibosatsu Shaka judai deshi) series by Shiko Munakata.
Kasennen (Katyayana), from the series "Two Bodhisattva and Ten Great Disciples of Buddha Sakyamuni (Nibosatsu Shaka judai deshi)" depicts temples & shrines and religious.