Daigoji Temple: Withdrawal of Recommendation (detail)
Ink on paper
處分狀 聖寶
日本
此卷書寫者聖寶僧正，乃日本真言宗高僧，京都醍醐寺的開山祖師，專弘三論，諡號理源大師。簡中寥寥數語，蓋言其識人有不明處，故往昔推薦其人之意，今則收回。書成於平安延喜七年（907）。一九五九年指定為日本國寶。
此書用筆較短而起落皆圓，輕重明顯，往往寫至墨枯飛白時才又沾墨續書，長形與寬扁的結字彼此錯落，表現出自然書寫的情狀與速度感，也使人聯想到顏真卿草稿的風格，其結字雖不若顏真卿之精巧，但率真自然之情則毫無二致。
參考釋文：老僧寬藏師不知其心性只／依小為勞以去年任於別當／而今親見操意甚以破□／性也因之永停止別當並／御願所行事但提胡成願／兩寺之事聽延敒法師／處分／延喜七年六月二日 僧正聖寶
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy, page 39.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Daigoji Temple: Withdrawal of Recommendation." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy , vol. 17, 2016, pp. 39.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Gary Edson. 2016. "Daigoji Temple: Withdrawal of Recommendation" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy , 17:39.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Edson, G.. (2016). Daigoji Temple: Withdrawal of Recommendation. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Calligraphy (Vol. 17, pp. 39).
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