“Dharma Words”

Jiun Onkō

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Artist Name: Jiun Onkō
Title: “Dharma Words”
Dimensions: painting：42.2×55.5cm
full length：126.0×58.5cm
Medium: ink on silk
Description: Jiun Onkō (1718‐1804) was born in Ōsaka.

He became a monk at Hōrakuji Temple when he was 13 years old and there he learnt Buddhist Tantrism and Sanskrit.
After becoming a temple master of Chōeiji, he continued to practice asceticism.
From 1758 he started to live in quiet retirement.
Yanagisawa Yasumitsu, a feudal lord of Nara prefecture, supported him to construct Kōkiji Temple.
He passed away in 1804, and was buried in Kōkiji Temple.