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Keigo Mamba | |
|---|---|
| Born | 萬羽 啓吾 February 4, 1957 |
| Occupation | Antiques dealer |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Kokushikan University 文学部哲学科国語国文学専攻 |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | inkstone, Japanese calligraphy, painting, Ryōkan |
| Notable works | Ryōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書, Akinono jō -- ryōkan zenji manyō tekiroku あきのの帖 |
| Notable ideas | Ceremonial usage theory of sō-gana |
| Influenced | Matsuo Itami (伊丹, 末雄) |
Mamba, Keigo (萬羽, 啓吾, 4 February 1957 -[1]) is a Japanese antiques dealer and researcher of Ryōkan (a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk in 1758 - 1831), who has been the owner of an antiques shop, Mamba-ken (萬羽軒), in Kanda-Jinbōchō, Tokyo, Japan. Mamba is known for his connoisseurship in a wide range of East Asian arts, such as Chinese and Japanese calligraphy and paintings, Chinese inkstone, and Buddhist arts. Particularly, Mamba is a leading expert in Taiseido Suigan inkstone (Japanese: 大西洞水巌硯), the best-valued stone material for inkstone, and calligraphy of Ryōkan.
Overview
[edit]Mamba was born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.[2] Since 2002, he has been running an antique shop, Mamba-ken in Kanda-Jinbōchō (one of the world's largest book town), Tokyo. His main interests are in the so-called Four Treasures of the Study (Japanese: 文房四寶; the main four Chinese stationery used in a study: inkstone, inkstick, brush, and paper).[3]
He is best known as a specialist in Duan inkstones (Japanese: 端渓硯), particularly Taiseido Suigan. Mamba visited China a couple of times in the 1980s and learned the stone quality of Taiseido Suigan, which re-started to be mined in the 1970s after more than a century. Despite the hardness of discerning inkstone made of Taiseido Suigan from counterfeits, Mamba has been highly evaluated for his discerning eye. Renowned intellectuals and artists too seem to visit Mamba-ken. For example, a Japanese writer, Seigo Matsuoka (松岡正剛), wrote about the shop on his blog.[4]
Ryōkan
[edit]His contribution in the research field about Ryōkan is remarkable since not only Mamba is a connoisseur of Ryōkan's calligraphy who newly discovered Buddhist manuscripts written by Ryōkan, but also he suggests to regard Ryōkan as bunjin (Japanese: 文人; the literati).[5]
Even since the living days of Ryōkan, Ryōkan has been recognized as a sacred and familiar image who lived in honorable poverty solely relying on mendicancy, wrote beautiful poems, interacted with local ordinaries, and played with local children by bouncing a ball, in other words, Ryōkan is an object respected and adored. Mamba makes Ryōkan's objective image clear, not a conventional, excessively saintly image. According to Mamba, it is not appropriate to see Ryōkan from one-sided perspectives (e.g., a begging monk who protested the then gigantic temple organization and authority, calligrapher, poet, etc.). Ryōkan continued to learn the profound thought of Zen since his youth, never abandoned a Zen-monk life, but had a very human side. Ryōkan had a wife once for a half year at 18 years old and even a child who died young. Mamba considers such a point beginning from his examination of the calligraphic works of Ryōkan. A notable scholar of Man'yōshū, Matsuo Itami's (Japanese: 伊丹, 末雄) writings seem to influence on Mamba's work. [6]
Birth and Development of Kana ("Ceremonial Usage Theory of Sō-gana)
[edit]Mamba also suggests a new theory on the birth and development of kana characters: the "ceremonial usage theory of sō-gana (Japanese: 草仮名形式説)". That is, hiragana (a kind of kana character and also known as on'na-de) which had several ways to write for each syllable was unified into that one character for one syllable at some point (probably around 905 for an imperial ordinance of Emperor Daigo), and sō-gana (Japanese: 草仮名; another type of kana characters) was born in the mid 10th century and ceremonially used to write ancient waka (poetry) for a certain short period. [7]
Books
[edit]Single-authored Books
[edit]Mamba, Keigo. Ryōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書 [Ryōkan: Calligraphy of the literati]. Tokyo: Shintensha, 2007.
Co-authored Books
[edit]Ikeda, Kazuomi; Keigo Mamba. Akinono jō -- ryōkan zenji manyō tekiroku あきのの帖: 良寛禅師萬葉摘録 [Akinono-jō: Ryōkan's Excerpts of Man'yōshū]. Rokyo: Seikan-sha, 2013.
References
[edit]- ^ Mamba, Keigo. Ryōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書 [Ryōkan: Calligraphy of the literati]. Tokyo: Shintensha, 2007.
- ^ https://www.hmv.co.jp/artist_萬羽啓吾_200000000697905/biography/
- ^ https://jimbou.info/bookstores/ab0152/
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/matsuokaseigo/posts/高野純子のはからいにより神田の萬羽軒でとんでもない書と硯石を十数点見る良寛のほかはここでは明かせない名品ばかりだ溜息萬羽啓吾とも大いに話しこむ松岡正剛刊セイゴオ/1144881342205315/
- ^ Shohō bessatsu 5 gatsu-gō 書法 別冊 5月号 [Shohō: Additional Volume], May Issue. Oita: Shohō Kenkyū-kai, 2009.
- ^ Mamba, Keigo. Ryōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書 [Ryōkan: Calligraphy of the literati]. Tokyo: Shintensha, 2007.
- ^ Mamba, Keigo. Ryōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書 [Ryōkan: Calligraphy of the literati]. Tokyo: Shintensha, 2007.