[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools hanging scroll (kakejiku) Zodiac sign "Ox"] Zodiac hanging scroll, horizontal scroll painting inscription, Otsue, Ten Oxen, Komori Yusetsu painting (Zodiac sign Ox, Godaijitsu)

The Ten Oxherding Pictures are ten pictures depicting in stages the actions of a herder searching for his runaway cows.
It is the story of a young man who loses himself in mundane life and sets out on a journey to find his true self.
The "cow" is a symbol of "one's true self," and the shepherd searching for the cow is a metaphor for "oneself searching for one's true self."
The painting depicts the journey of searching for "who I am," and represents the path to Zen enlightenment.

Figure 1: Searching for cows (jingyū)
Figure 2: Finding cow footprints (kenseki)
Figure 3: Finding cows (kengyu)
Figure 4: Catching a cow (Tokugyu)
Figure 5: "Cow farming" - taming cows
Picture 6: Riding a cow back home (Kigyūkike)
Figure 7: Living as you are, "Bogyū Zonjin"
Figure 8: The blank "Jingyugubo"
Figure 9: Returning to the origin
Figure 10: "Human Tensuishu" living in the human world

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Artist: Komori Yusetsu
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artist
Born in 1957
Graduated from Kyoto Academy of Art and Design
Member of the Otsu Ematsufukai Association
Member of the Japan Otsu-e Culture Association
Studied under the 4th generation Otsu artist, Takahashi Matsuyama
(Takahashi Matsuyama, a leading figure in Otsu-e)
First solo exhibition at Gallery Bunade in 2001
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Box: Wooden box