Sengai's Ensō - T-Shirt Color:White The tsuba is the sword

The tsuba is the sword guard of a Japanese sword

moving away from rigid perfectionism toward a more human

In Japanese legend

rough-hewn quality

deeply influenced European Impressionists like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet

Sengai's Ensō - T-Shirt Color:White The tsuba is the swordA minimalist tee featuring an authentic ens or Zen circle by the monk artist Sengai Gibon (1750 1837). The brushworks lively cadence and the playful inscription give this shirt a calm, understated presence you can wear every day. The design This design reproduces one of Sengais ens, a single, unbroken circle painted in swift ink stroke. In Zen, the ens can suggest completeness, impermanence, or the moment when the mind is free to let the body create.