Attributed to Seki Seisetsu Genjô (1877-1945)-(関) 精拙 元浄, Japan, Meiji / Showa periodZen Buddhist calligraphy signed Seiga sô-青峨叟 with three seals of the artist including a Seiga seal-青峨, a seal 天龍長老 - Tenryu chôro (elder (senior) of Tenryu temple) at lower left. On the seal in the upper right is engraved the following inscription: 世事問樵客 (pinyin Shìshì wèn qiáo kè) - "if you want to know what happens in the ordinary world, ask the traveling woodcutters". This inscription used in China in seals is a famous line from a poem by Wang Wei (a Tang-era poet greatly influenced by Chan (Zen) Buddhism). This excerpt is part of the book "The Refined Temple of Mount Lantian" - Lantian Shan Shimen Jing She - 蓝 田 山 石 门 精 舍. India ink on paper mounted in kakemono. Missing one jikusaki (mouthpiece of the kakejuku), the other incomplete. 133 x 31,5 cm- Provenance : Collection Michel Tapié. By descent. Seisetsu Genjô was a Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect of the Tenryu ji temple in Kyoto, whose go (artist name) was Seiga - 青峨.