Unidentified Artists

unidentified_mu (148K)
Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified.
Creator.Role: calligrapher
Title: 無 (む) [mu, nothing, no, not] (Buddhist concept)]
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script kanji; signed by the artist; two artist's seals.
Type: Calligraphy--Japanese.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Japanese.
Culture: Japanese.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 22 x 48 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.

Details: signature, seal, and tomobako.
unidentified_mu_seal (68K) unidentified_mu_seal2 (36K) unidentified_mu_box (75K)
wangwei (43K) Creator.Personal Name: unidentified.
Creator.Role: calligrapher
Title: [鹿柴 by Wang Wei 王維]
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script; signed by the artist; three artist's seals.
Type: Calligraphy--Japanese.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Japanese.
Culture: Japanese.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 13 x 53 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.

Details of calligraphy:
wangwei_detail_1 (41K) wangwei_detail_2 (80K)
Details: seals.
wangwei_seal_1 (38K) wangwei_seal_2 (34K) wangwei_seal_3 (33K)
Text of Wang Wei's poem 鹿柴:

空山不見人
但聞人語響
返景入深林
復照青苔上

Translation of poem:

There seems to be no one on the empty mountain...
And yet I think I hear a voice,
Where sunlight, entering a grove,
Shines back to me from the green moss.
busshing (46K)
Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified.
Creator.Role: calligrapher
Title: 佛心
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script kanji; signed by the artist; three artist's seals.
Type: Calligraphy--Japanese.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Japanese.
Culture: Japanese.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 19 x 73 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.

Details: seals.
busshin_seal_1 (28K) busshin_seal_2 (32K)
Translation of text: 佛心 busshin which means buddha nature (buddha heart/mind).
Fukurokuju (21K)
Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified.
Creator.Role: calligrapher
Title: 福禄寿
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script kanji; signed by the artist; one artist's seal.
Type: Calligraphy--Japanese.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Japanese.
Culture: Japanese.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 18 x 53.5 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.

Details: signature and seals.
Fukurokuju_sigseal (14K) Fukurokuju_seal_1 (14K)
Translation of text: Fukurokuju's name 福禄寿 (Japanese god of wisdom and longevity, one of the seven lucky gods)
MAKA-HANNYA-HARAMITSU (18K)
Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified.
Creator.Role: calligrapher
Title: 訶般若波羅蜜
Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script kanji; signed by the artist; one artist's seal.
Type: Calligraphy--Japanese.
Type: Scroll (Visual work)--Japanese.
Culture: Japanese.
Style.Period: Modern.
Technique: painting.
Material.Medium: ink.
Material.Support: paper.
Measurements: 18 x 53.5 in.
Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.)
Rights: C. J. Campbell.
Record Type: work.

Details: signature and seals.
MAKA-HANNYA-HARAMITSU_lowerseals (7K) MAKA-HANNYA-HARAMITSU_upperseal (7K)
Translation of text: 訶般若波羅蜜 maka hannya haramitsu is a phonetic rendering of the Sanskrit maha prajna paramita, which means means the accomplishment that is great real wisdom.
Japanese Calligraphy