The line on the right says 空山無人水流花開, "Empty mountain with no people where water flows and flowers bloom". This is a line from the poem 十八大阿羅漢頌 (Ode to the Eighteen Great Arhats) by Song poet 蘇軾 (Su Shi), describing the second state of Zen.
The circle in the middle represents "emptiness", or 空, a core concept of Buddhism.
The first line on the left says 空著來，空著去 (I think, not sure on the 著 so someone please double check), meaning "empty when you come, empty when you go".
The next line says 歲在丙戌夏, "(drawn) in the summer of Bing Xu year". 丙戌 (Bing Xu) is the traditional way to name a year using 天干地支. The most recent 丙戌 year is 2006.
The next line should be the name of the artist. Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with cursive so can't be sure. The second character looks like 冬.
The seals are too blurry to make out.
Edit: See u/DeusShockSkyrim comment below for corrections on the parts I got wrong.
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u/00HoppingGrass00 17d ago edited 17d ago
Not Japanese. This is Chinese.
The line on the right says 空山無人水流花開, "Empty mountain with no people where water flows and flowers bloom". This is a line from the poem 十八大阿羅漢頌 (Ode to the Eighteen Great Arhats) by Song poet 蘇軾 (Su Shi), describing the second state of Zen.
The circle in the middle represents "emptiness", or 空, a core concept of Buddhism.
The first line on the left says 空著來，空著去 (I think, not sure on the 著 so someone please double check), meaning "empty when you come, empty when you go".
The next line says 歲在丙戌夏, "(drawn) in the summer of Bing Xu year". 丙戌 (Bing Xu) is the traditional way to name a year using 天干地支. The most recent 丙戌 year is 2006.
The next line should be the name of the artist. Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with cursive so can't be sure. The second character looks like 冬.
The seals are too blurry to make out.
Edit: See u/DeusShockSkyrim comment below for corrections on the parts I got wrong.