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Unidentified Calligraphers
	Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Creator.Role: calligrapher Title: 雪 [snow] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; regular script; unsigned; three artist's seals. Type: Calligraphy—Japanese. Type: Scroll (Visual work)—Japanese. Culture: Japanese. Style.Period: Modern. Technique: painting. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 21.8 x 47.2 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work.
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	Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Creator.Role: calligrapher Title: 佛心. Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script kanji; signed by the artist; three artist's seals. Type: Calligraphy—Japanese. Type: Scroll (Visual work)—Japanese. Culture: Japanese. Style.Period: Modern. Technique: painting. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 19 x 73 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of text: 佛心 = busshin which means buddha nature (buddha heart/mind).
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	Creator.Personal Name: Unidentified. Creator.Role: calligrapher Title: 訶般若波羅蜜. Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script kanji; signed by the artist; one artist's seal. Type: Calligraphy—Japanese. Type: Scroll (Visual work)—Japanese. Culture: Japanese. Style.Period: Modern. Technique: painting. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 18 x 53.5 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Translation of text: 訶般若波羅蜜 = maka hannya haramitsu which is a phonetic rendering of the Sanskrit maha prajna paramita, which means the accomplishment that is great real wisdom.
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	Creator.Personal Name: unidentified. Creator.Role: calligrapher Title: [鹿柴 by Wang Wei 王維] Description: hanging scroll; ink on paper; cursive script; signed by the artist; three artist's seals. Type: Calligraphy—Japanese. Type: Scroll (Visual work)—Japanese. Culture: Japanese. Style.Period: Modern. Technique: painting. Material.Medium: ink. Material.Support: paper. Measurements: 13 x 53 in. Location.Current Repository: private collection, C. J. Campbell (Chicago, Ill.) Rights: C. J. Campbell. Record Type: work. Text of Wang Wei's poem 鹿柴: 空山不見人 但聞人語響 返景入深林 復照青苔上 Translation of poem: There seems to be no one on the empty mountain... And yet I think I hear a voice, Where sunlight, entering a grove, Shines back to me from the green moss.
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