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Subject:Japanese scroll painting - signature and poem
Posted By: Lisa W Mon, Feb 19, 2024 IP: 31.124.216.9
Please can someone help to translate this inscription on a Zen scroll painting of Daruma.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can upload more images of the painting and the box it came in if required.







Subject:Re: Japanese scroll painting - signature and poem
Posted By: I.Nagy Wed, Feb 21, 2024
七四翁大休拝寫
Respectfully painted by the seventy four years old Daikyū
Upper seal,
宗悦之印　Seal of Sōetsu
Lower seal,
ｘ大休　X Daikyū (I can't read the first character)
Inscription,
芥納須弥　
毛呑巨海
The small mustard seed can contain Mount Meru　and
a single hair can swallow the huge sea

Daikyū Sōetsu 大休宗悅　1860-1959
18th head of Myōshinji Temple in Kyōto

With regards,
I.Nagy

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