Japanese scroll depicting the 10 ox-herding pictures serving as a parable for the Zen path of enlightenment

by Mahayana Buddhist Scroll

$5,000 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

[Japan: 19th century]. Horizontal scroll, 14 inches by approximately 14½ feet; 10 hand-painted panels, each measuring 14" x "19; headed by brocade; brocade lightly soiled, otherwise quite fine. Housed in a lightly worn cardboard box. The ten colorful and masterfully produced ox-herding images each contain a series of short stanzas..... More

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