Titled wall poem - Daihekishi (English)

Japanese: 題壁詩 - だいへきし（英語表記）tí bì shī

A poem written directly on a wall. In China, walls have been used as a place to transmit poetry from ancient times to modern times. An example of a poem on a wall is recorded in "Laocan Youji" by Liu E of the Qing Dynasty. The great Liang writer Shen Yue wrote his own "Eight Poems" on the wall of Xuan Chang Tower, built in Jinhua County, Zhejiang Province, and Xuan Chang Tower was subsequently also called the Eight Poems Tower. There are many poems by Tang Dynasty poets that are entitled "Inscribed on a Wall," but they are all "Inscribed Wall Poems." There is a well-known story in the "Sixth Patriarch's Platform Sutra" that tells of Huineng (the founder of Southern Zen Buddhism), a man of the early Tang Dynasty, who inscribed a poem on the wall that shows a state of enlightenment, including the phrase "originally nothing," and was recognized by the Fifth Patriarch Hongren, who eventually bestowed him the Sixth Patriarch's robes and hats.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

壁にじかに書きしるした詩。中国において壁は，古代から近代に至るまで，詩の伝達の場に用いられた。清の劉鶚（りゆうがく）の《老残遊記》にも題壁詩の実例がしるされている。梁の文豪沈約（しんやく）は，浙江省金華県に建てられた玄暢楼（げんちようろう）の壁に自作の〈八詠詩〉を書きしるし，以後玄暢楼は，八詠楼とも称された。唐代詩人にも〈壁に題す〉と題がつけられているものが数多くあるが，すべて〈題壁詩〉である。初唐の人である慧能（えのう）(南宗禅の始祖)が，〈本来無一物〉の句を含む悟境を示す詩を題壁して，五祖弘忍（ぐにん）に認められ，ついに六祖の衣鉢を与えられたという《六祖壇経（ろくそだんきよう）》の話はよく知られている。

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