[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools, colored paper with inscription] Handwritten, many fallen leaves, painting of a bunch of bamboo or a painting of a mountain road grass, Enokoro grass, by Nishigaki Daido

● Mon wo hirakebaraku yooshi (open the gate, many fallen leaves)… A five-line couplet from the Zenrin Kushu (Collection of Kudos) goes, “Listening to the rain, the cold weather comes to an end, opening the gate, many fallen leaves”
As I listened to the sound of the rain, the cold night passed, and when dawn came, I opened the gate and found leaves fallen all over the place.
The sound of rain that one had been listening to all night was, in the morning, the sound of leaves tapping on the eaves, creating a tranquil, secluded atmosphere. In other words, it represents the moment one attains enlightenment when one realizes that the sound that one had thought was rain was in fact the sound of leaves. [From the Zen Dictionary]

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Artist: Daido Nishigaki
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Gokurakuji Temple Kinosaki, Hyogo Prefecture
Born in Kura Prefecture in 1942.
In 1949, he was ordained as a monk by Bunzan Soko. After graduating from Japan Social Welfare University, he was appointed to the Daitoku Sodo and later the Shokoku Sodo.
In 1976, he completed his master's course at Bukkyo University Graduate School.
In 1978, he became the chief priest of Gokuraku Zenji Temple of the Daitokuji school in Kinosaki County, Hyogo Prefecture, a position he still holds today.
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Box: Tato paper