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Keigo Mamba
Born
萬羽 啓吾

(1957-02-04) February 4, 1957 (age 68)
 Japan, Niigata Prefecture
OccupationAntiques dealer
Academic work
Main interestsinkstone, Japanese calligraphy, painting, Ryōkan
Notable worksRyōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書, Akinono jō -- ryōkan zenji manyō tekiroku あきのの帖
Notable ideasCeremonial usage theory of sō-gana
InfluencedMatsuo Itami (伊丹, 末雄)

Mamba, Keigo (萬羽, 啓吾; 4 February 1957 -[1]) is a Japanese antiques dealer and researcher of Ryōkan (a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk in 1758 - 1831), who has been the owner of an antiques shop, Mamba-ken (萬羽軒), in Kanda-Jinbōchō, Tokyo, Japan. Mamba is known for his connoisseurship in a wide range of East Asian arts, such as Chinese and Japanese calligraphy and paintings, Chinese inkstone, and Buddhist arts. Particularly, Mamba is specialized in Taiseido Suigan inkstone (Japanese: 大西洞水巌硯), the best-valued stone material for inkstone, and calligraphy of Ryōkan.[1]

Overview

Mamba was born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.[2] Since 2002, he has been running an antique shop, Mamba-ken in Kanda-Jinbōchō (one of the world's largest book town), Tokyo. His main interests are in the so-called Four Treasures of the Study (Japanese: 文房四寶; the main four Chinese stationery used in a study: inkstone, inkstick, brush, and paper).[3]

He is popular as a specialist in Duan inkstones (Japanese: 端渓硯), particularly Taiseido Suigan. Mamba visited China a couple of times in the 1980s and learned the stone quality of Taiseido Suigan, which re-started to be mined in the 1970s after more than a century. Although it is hard to discern inkstone made of Taiseido Suigan from counterfeits, Mamba has been evaluated for his connoisseurship and was introduced with other specialists of inkstone on the calligraphy journal[4] Popular intellectuals and artists too seem to visit Mamba-ken. For example, a Japanese writer, Seigo Matsuoka (Japanese: 松岡正剛 [jp]), wrote about the shop on his blog.

Ryōkan

He contributed to the research field about Ryōkan as well. It was not only Mamba is dealing with Ryōkan's calligraphy and newly discovered Buddhist manuscripts written by Ryōkan, but also suggests a to regard Ryōkan as a bunjin (Japanese: 文人 (日本) [jp]); the literati).[5] [6] Mamba wrote his first book in 2007 and discussed this image of Ryōkan as a bunjin.[1] [7]

Even since the living days of Ryōkan, Ryōkan has been recognized as a sacred and familiar image who lived in honorable poverty solely relying on mendicancy, wrote beautiful poems, interacted with local ordinaries, and played with local children by bouncing a ball, in other words, Ryōkan is an object respected and adored. Mamba makes Ryōkan's objective image clear, not a conventional, excessively saintly image. According to Mamba, it is not appropriate to see Ryōkan from one-sided perspectives (e.g., a begging monk who protested the then gigantic temple organization and authority, calligrapher, poet, etc.). Ryōkan continued to learn the profound thought of Zen since his youth, never abandoned a Zen-monk life, but had a very human side. Ryōkan had a wife once for a half year at 18 years old and even a child who died young. Mamba considers such a point beginning from his examination of the calligraphic works of Ryōkan. A scholar of Man'yōshū, Matsuo Itami's (Japanese: 伊丹末雄) writings seem to influence on Mamba's work. [1]

In 2012, Mamba coauthored a book titled Akinono jō -- ryōkan zenji manyō tekiroku あきのの帖: 良寛禅師萬葉摘録 [Akinono-jō: Ryōkan's Excerpts of Man'yōshū] with a Japanese scholer, Kazuomi Ikeda (Japanese: 池田和臣 [jp]), in which they overturned the prevailing orthodoxy about Ryōkan's two manuscripts of poems. Even though Takeuchi-version, the excerpts of Man'yōshū formerly owned by Shun'ichi Takeuchi (Japanese: 竹内俊一 [jp]), had been regarded as a copy (not authentic manuscript written by Ryōkan) of Yasuda-version, the another one formerly owned by Yukihiko Yasuda, the authenticity is opposite.[8] In 2024, Mamba also offer Ryōkan's Buddhist manuscripts to the book written by Makio Takemura (Japanese: 竹村牧男 [jp]), Ryōkan: sono butsudō 良寛--その仏道 [Ryōkan: His Path to Buddha]. Tokyo: Seikan-sha, 2024. Print.[9]

Birth and Development of Kana (Ceremonial Usage Theory of Sō-gana)

Mamba also suggests a theory on the birth and development of kana characters: the "ceremonial usage theory of sō-gana (Japanese: 草仮名形式説)". That is, hiragana (a kind of kana character and also known as on'na-de) which had been unified into that one hiragana character for one syllable at some point (probably around 905 for an imperial ordinance of Emperor Daigo), and sō-gana (Japanese: 草仮名; another type of kana characters) was born in the mid 10th century and ceremonially used to write ancient waka (poetry) for a certain short period. [1]

Books

Single-authored Books

Mamba, Keigo. Ryōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書 [Ryōkan: Calligraphy of the literati]. Tokyo: Shintensha, 2007.[1]

Co-authored Books

Ikeda, Kazuomi; Keigo Mamba. Akinono jō -- ryōkan zenji manyō tekiroku あきのの帖: 良寛禅師萬葉摘録 [Akinono-jō: Ryōkan's Excerpts of Man'yōshū]. Rokyo: Seikan-sha, 2012.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Mamba, Keigo. Ryōkan -- bunjin no sho 良寛 -- 文人の書 [Ryōkan: Calligraphy of the literati]. Tokyo: Shintensha, 2007. Print.
  2. ^ "萬羽啓吾｜プロフィール｜HMV&BOOKS online".(cf. 21 June 2025)
  3. ^ "Booktownじんぼう".(cf. 21 June 2025)
  4. ^ Bessatsu sumi: bunboshiho hitsubokukenshi no yo to bi 別冊墨 文房四宝 筆墨硯紙の用と美 [Sumi: The Four Treasures of the Study, The Use and Beauty of Brush, Ink, Inkstone, and Paper]. Tokyo: Geijutsu Shimbun-sha, 1987. Print.
  5. ^ Bunjin no me 文人の眼 [Eyes of the Literati], 2nd Issue. Tokyo: Ribun Shuppan, 2002. pp. 56-61, Print.
  6. ^ Shohō bessatsu 5 gatsu-gō 書法 別冊 5月号 [Shohō: Additional Volume], May Issue. Oita: Shohō Kenkyū-kai, 2009. Print.
  7. ^ Itami, Matsuo. Ryōkan saitaisetsu no shōri: shinshiryō ni rikkyaku shite 良寛妻帯説の勝利―新資料に立脚して [Victory of the Theory about Ryōkan's Marriage]. The Research Bulletin of Osaka Aoyama College, No. 13, pp. 10–11, 1987. Print.
  8. ^ a b Ikeda, Kazuomi; Keigo Mamba. Akinono jō -- ryōkan zenji manyō tekiroku あきのの帖: 良寛禅師萬葉摘録 [Akinono-jō: Ryōkan's Excerpts of Man'yōshū]. Rokyo: Seikan-sha, 2012. Print.
  9. ^ Takemura, Makio. Ryōkan: sono butsudō 良寛--その仏道 [Ryōkan: His Path to Buddha]. Tokyo: Seikan-sha, 2024. Print.
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