The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin February 17, 2011

Considered the most important Japanese Zen master of the last 500 years, Hakuin is also regarded as the most significant Zen artist. In his teachings, writings and art Hakuin reached out to monks and lay followers, as well as a general audience that included the rural poor. In the process, Hakuin invented a new visual language for Zen art using folk and every day subjects in addition to Zen themes. Nearly 80 scrolls, 70 by Hakuin and the remainder by his immediate disciples, have been gathered from public and private Japanese and American collections for 'The Sound of One Hand.'