Ten Oxherding Songs, 烏丸光広筆　十牛図歌賛図巻, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1634, Japan, Handscroll; ink on dyed paper with stenciled

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Ten Oxherding Songs, 烏丸光広筆　十牛図歌賛図巻, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1634, Japan, Handscroll; ink on dyed paper with stenciled decoration in gold and silver, 11 3/4 x 107 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (Japanese, 1579–1638), Ten waka (poems of thirty-one syllables) describing the various stages of spiritual awareness, from the initial search to final realization, are couched in the classic Zen parable Ten Ox-Herding Songs, which likens this vigorous human quest to the often comic vicissitudes of a herdboy in pursuit of an elusive ox

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