Bokuseki
Bokuseki ( Japanese 墨跡 , dt. "Tuschspur") is a form of Japanese calligraphy ( Shodō ). It was developed as a special Zenga style by Zen monks .
However, Bokuseki not only shows the shape of a character and not only expresses the content of this character - whereby (especially in the West and in more recent times) there is also increasing traces of ink that do not reproduce a character and are therefore not "translatable". Rather, the following applies: traces of ink are always the living document of an intensely experienced moment. The more powerfully the moment is lived in which the ink trail is created, the more its essence becomes present in it. - Words of a Master of Bokuseki: "The ink track is not calligraphy ; it is something that comes from the source. If you make a sign, then you have to be this essential nature yourself. "
Bokuseki thus arises in a short, unrepeatable moment, in a single act based on meditation and (sometimes years of) practice: inner tension, dynamics, energy of the ink trail - all of this becomes an “imprint of the spirit”.
Bokuseki is done with the intention that in every ink trace , Zen is ultimately realized, yes, it is often also an expression of the individual's zazen practice, which is illustrated in a physical-artistic act.
literature
- Heinz Götze: Bokuseki - brush marks . German Society for Natural History and Ethnology of East Asia, Tokyo 1979
- Tetsuo Roshi Nagaya Kiichi: Ink traces. Foreword and introduction by Edgar Thriemer. Compilation of the pictures and texts by Folker Frank and Edgar Thriemer . Theseus Verlag, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85936-013-2
- Kazuaki Tanahashi: Zen Mind - Zen Art . Kristkeitz Verlag, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-92150-851-7
- Interview with Zen Master Rech - Beyond the noble goals. Zen writing - traces of ink on the soul . in: esoterica 7/1989, Bauer-Verlag, Freiburg 1989
- Marc van den Broek : Tuschespuren , self-published, Wiesbaden 1994–1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tetsuo Roshi Nagaya Kiichi