Japanese scroll depicting the 10 ox-herding pictures serving as a parable for the Zen path of enlightenment

[Japan]: [19th c.]. Horizontal scroll, 14 inches by approximately 14.5 feet; 10 handpainted panels measuring 14" x "19; headed by brocade; brocade lightly soiled, otherwise quite fine. Housed in a lightly worn cardbord box. The ten colorful and masterfully produced ox-herding images contain a series of short stanzas which serve as a parable for the Zen path of enlightenment. The images first appeared in 11th-century China, and became popular among Japanese sometime around the 15th century. This scroll was produced in the 19th century, and follows Chinese artistic conventions, although its artist was Japanese. Item #50109

Price: $6,000.00