Product Description: The ensō is one of the most prevalent images of Zen art, and it has become a kind of symbol of the clean and strong Japanese aesthetic. It has been subject to a rich variety of interpretations—seen as everything from a rice cake to a symbol of infinity...read more

Published in conjunction with a touring exhibit of twentieth-century Zen art, an album of eighty color and thirty-five black-and-white reproductions demonstrates the current vitality of Zen spirituality and its expression in paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics. (view table of contents)