Word: taoist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reversal of that gesture-not reality drowned but imagination borne upon the stream. The energy of Korin's brush reflects the lightning lift and speed of human imagination, which is capable of almost anything, even of riding on the back of a fish. His art also mirrors Taoist thought, which regards "everything as destroyed and everything as in completion . . . reaching security through chaos.'' Asked where he had got this idea, the sage Nu Yu replied: "I learned it from the Son of Ink. The Son of Ink learned it from the Grandson of Learning. The Grandson...
...Chinatown, beneath banners and scrolls and paper models of ships and planes, dozens of Chinese last week played mah-jongg by the light that gleamed from two adjoining houses. From inside the houses came a deafening cacophony of clanging cymbals, shrieking flutes and thumping drums. In the ancient Taoist tradition, the mah-jongg players had come to pay their last respects to friends and relatives who lay dying inside...
Paper Palaces. When one of the "active" members of the tai Ian kun (The Club of the Most Critical Moment) is dying, a roast-pig dinner is laid before him, and Taoist priests chant prayers that he will be transported to heaven. Women fold silver joss papers that cost 40? a 1,000 but are thought to be worth 1,000 silver dollars in paradise. The average traveler to the next world gets about 10,-000 pieces of silver, a ricksha, a medium-sized house-all made of paper. The better off, who can pay $330 for a big funeral...
...leaders of the mystic Taoist faith in Hunan Province have been condemned to death, according to the Peking press, for "preparing paper-made robes, swords, warships, banners, bows and arrows in a vicious attempt to equip an army of the other world and attack the Communist Party." In the Taoist view, objects can be translated to the spirit world if paper representations are burned. Thus the paper ornaments could indeed be stockpiled for a counterrevolution of spirits...
...Patriarchs of Religions Boating Together was done in Tessai's last year. The six figures, representing key personages in Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian religious history, are symbolic of Tessai's belief in the underlying unity of Oriental religions. By his controlled use of sumi-ink splash and brush strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom...