{"id":100,"date":"2017-09-25T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/?p=100"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:14:57","slug":"tomioka_tessai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/2017\/09\/25\/tomioka_tessai\/","title":{"rendered":"His matchless discernment: Tomioka Tessai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/pubs\/bulletins\/1\/pdf\/3257735.pdf.bannered.pdf\">article<\/a> [PDF] full of old-fashioned talking-in-paragraphs about Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai by \u201cBishop Kojo Sakamoto, Abbot of Kiyoshi Kojin Seicho Temple\u201d (which today styles itself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiyoshikojin.or.jp\/en\/\">Kiyoshik\u00f4jin Seich\u00f4-ji Temple<\/a>). I guess the exhibition it refers to was held in the 50s or 60s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once he said, &#8220;People are always coming to me boasting of their calligraphy. All of them write very well, but none so well as I do. If only Kobo Daishi were still alive, the two of us would have a real &#8216;meeting of minds&#8217; about calligraphy!&#8221; I was struck with admiration for his matchless discernment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I honestly don\u2019t think it takes a whole lot of discernment to identify K\u016bkai as one of Japanese calligraphy\u2019s all-time greats. It\u2019s like saying \u201cNow Michelangelo, there\u2019s a guy who was on my level.\u201d You really have to be Tessai to get away with it. (Kat\u014d Sh\u016bichi said that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B._C._Binning\">B.\u00a0C. Binning<\/a> put Tessai on the level of about C\u00e9zanne, as I recall.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article [PDF] full of old-fashioned talking-in-paragraphs about Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai by \u201cBishop Kojo Sakamoto, Abbot of Kiyoshi Kojin Seicho Temple\u201d (which today styles itself Kiyoshik\u00f4jin Seich\u00f4-ji Temple). I guess the exhibition it refers to was held in the 50s or 60s. Once he said, &#8220;People are always coming to me boasting of their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/2017\/09\/25\/tomioka_tessai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;His matchless discernment: Tomioka Tessai&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","category-papers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bLCp-1C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-sword.jp\/zoku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}