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Reclining Ox

Artist Nakahara Nantembô (Japanese, 1839–1925)
Culture Japanese
Title Reclining Ox
Date 1921–1922
Medium Ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 46 1/4 x 13 1/16 in. (117.5 x 33.2 cm)
Sheet: 76 1/4 x 17 1/2 in. (193.7 x 44.5 cm)
Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 84.51.2

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With a few strokes, Nantembo creates the image of a reclining ox whose tranquility is the subject of the poem. In Zen Buddhism, the unenlightened mind is compared to a rampaging wild ox. To tame the “ox of the mind” is to attain religious discipline.


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