Bokuseki

Bokuseki (Japanese墨迹, dt " ink trail " ) is a form of Japanese calligraphy ( Shodo ). It was developed as a special Zenga style of Zen monks.

However Bokuseki shows not only the shape of a character and press not only the content of this sign from - where increasingly produces ink traces ( just to the west and more recently ), which represent no characters and therefore not " translatable " are. Rather, the following applies: ink traces are always the living document of an intensively experienced moment. The more powerful the moment is lived, in which the ink trace is created, the more her being present in it. - With words of a master of Bokuseki: " The ink gauge is not a calligraphy; it is something that comes from the primordial ground. If you make a character, you have to be these beings nature itself. "

Thus Bokuseki created in a short unrepeatable moment in a single on meditation, and ( sometimes years ), founded in exercise act: Internal stress, dynamics, energy of the ink trace - all of this becomes a " footprint of the Spirit."

Bokuseki is done with the intention that. Flourish in every track, ultimately Zen is realized, so often it is also an expression of zazen practice of individuals, which illustrates in a physically - artistic action