Kegon Kyo
- Date:
- 1937
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
"Kegon Kyo" — the Kegon Sutra itself, its title appearing as the print's subject — is a work in which the text and the image coincide: the sutra is not illustrated but invoked, its presence in the print as a title suggesting that Munakata understood the act of carving and printing as itself a form of sutra recitation. This 1937 print, with its direct naming of the sacred text, demonstrates the seriousness with which he engaged Buddhist philosophy — not as iconographic program but as living thought that shaped how he understood his own creative practice.
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 Kyo was created by Shiko Munakata (棟方志功) in 1937.
Kegon Kyo depicts waterfalls.
