Hidden Treasure - Enso

Enso Zen Circles of Enlightenment

Enso: Zen Circles of Enlightenment

by Audrey Yoshiko Seo

These circular brushstrokes have become a kind of Zen cliché. Here's a chance to look past your preconceived ideas about them and appreciate their original energy, whimsy, and beauty.

Each is a work of art that's executed in a split second-but the actual work in fact takes many years, for the enso is nothing other than an an expression of the whole life and practice of the person who brushes it.

Audrey Yoshiko Seo, PhD, is an independent scholar and consultant on Japanese art. Her areas of research and publication include painting and calligraphy by Japanese Zen masters from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and contemporary Japanese fashion. She is the author of several books, including Zen No Sho: The Calligraphy of Fukushima Keido Roshi.

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