Surviving Paintings and Calligraphy of Sengai (Entsū Zenji iboku)
A 1894 Japanese woodblock-printed book published in Fukuoka by Sakai Sōnosuke, reproducing the surviving paintings and calligraphy of the Zen monk Sengai, with a title in Japanese and Chinese characters. The pages pair spare ink sketches of Zen figures, animals and everyday people with brushed poems and red seal stamps. A designer might take from them the economy of single brush strokes, the balance of open white space against small dense text blocks, and the playful humour of minimal line drawing.
