I Don't Know - Premium T-Shirt Kuniyoshi Utagawa flowing verse from the Diamond

flowing verse from the Diamond Sutra rendered in elegant cursive brushstrokes

and deeply personal

His ensō captures the mindfulness of a single

Buddhist practitioners

the composition is anchored by the red Kokin Denju seal

I Don't Know - Premium T-Shirt Kuniyoshi Utagawa flowing verse from the DiamondThis calligraphy by Jiun Onk revisits a story that is said to have happened in the year 520. Daruma meets Emperor Wu and is asked various questions about Buddhism but his answers fail to satisfy the Emperor. Annoyed, the emperor finally asks him "Who are you?" to which the Daruma answers "I do not know". Thrown out of the court, the Daruma is believed to have taken refuge in a cave, where he sat in meditation for nine years. Also available in a