Zenga

Japanese artist (1420-1506)

painting technique

Japanese Zen Buddhist master (1686-1769)

thumb| () by Kanjuro Shibata XX. Some artists draw with an opening in the circle, while others close the circle. In Zen art, an is a circle hand-drawn in one or two uninhibited brushstrokes to express the Zen mind, which is associated with enlightenment, emptiness, freedom, and the state of no-mind.

thumb|Muqi, Detail of dusk over fisher's village, from the handscroll "Eight Views of Xiaoxiang|Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang", circa 1250, Collected in Nezu Art Museum

Chinese monk and poet

thumb| or Marusankakushikaku or The Universe

series of short poems and drawings used in the Zen tradition

Japanese artist (1414-1463)

thumb|right|Catching catfish with a gourd (Hyōnen-zu) by Josetsu was one of the first suiboku (ink wash) style Zen Japanese painters in the Muromachi Period (15th century). He was probably also a teacher of Tenshō Shūbun at the Shōkoku-ji monastery in Kyoto.

Japanese artist (1504-1589)

Zen master (1177-1249)

Buddhist monk

thumb|, a famous zenga by Sengai

Chinese Zen monk and poet

'''Mu'an (; Japanese Mokuan Shōtō''') (1611–1684) was a Chinese Chan monk who followed his master Ingen to Japan in 1654. Mokuan was from Chuanchow in what was then Fukien Province. He and Sokuhi Nyoitsu were the two disciples most involved in spreading Ingen's teachings.

Bokuseki (墨跡) is a Japanese term meaning “ink trace”, and refers to a form of Japanese calligraphy (shodō) and more specifically a style of zenga developed by Zen monks.

painter (1288-1345)

Japanese philosopher

Japanese calligrapher, scholar, monk and artist (1596-1672)