Kegon-fu
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
"Kegon-fu" — a record of or meditation on the Kegon Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra), the great Mahayana text that describes a universe of infinite mutual reflection and interpenetration — appears in this 1937 print as a title that announces the entire 1937 series' Buddhist foundation. The Kegon Sutra's cosmological vision — Indra's net of jewels, each reflecting all the others, the universe as an infinite system of mutual causation — was profoundly compatible with Munakata's instinctive sense that everything was connected, that the sacred permeated the ordinary, that his carving knife was in contact with something larger than itself.
1960
Woodblock print
Shôwa period, 1926-1989
Woodblock print
1939-68
Woodblock print
1939 (printed 1955)
Woodblock print
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Kegon-fu was created by Shiko Munakata (棟方志功) in 1937.
Yes — Kegon-fu is part of the Pantheon of the Gandavyuha Sutra (Kegon-fu) series by Shiko Munakata.
Kegon-fu depicts waterfalls.
