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寶千印 · Tokyo · 2026
No.07
看脚下
Look Beneath Your Feet
かんきゃっか · kan kyakka
- Made to order
- Printed one at a time
- Shipping
- Included, worldwide
- Carved
- By hand, in Tokyo
Reading
A turning of the gaze from the distance back to the ground one stands on.
When the lamp goes out and the road ahead disappears, the only certainty is the step beneath the foot.
The way is not somewhere far off; it is the earth the foot already touches.
The same word is said to live in the act of setting one's shoes straight at the threshold.
Origin
Transmitted as a saying of the Chan master Yuanwu Keqin. As the story is handed down in the Zen tradition, he was walking a night road with his teacher Wuzu Fayan when the lamp went out, and in the dark he answered the question with two words — "look beneath your feet." The phrase itself also appears in the Blue Cliff Record (case 22); the exact textual source of the anecdote is not fixed.
Seal
Cut by hand in Tokyo by the artist. The angle of the blade and the depth of the stroke decide where the ink bleeds and where it holds. No imprint repeats.
篆刻 — 佐竹 寶千 朱印
Specifications
- Garment
- Short sleeve: Bella + Canvas 3001 / Long sleeve: Gildan 2400 (Ultra Cotton)
- DTG print — front: the seal; back & inside label: 寳千 / Vermilion
- Size
- S · M · L · XL
- Price
- ¥6,980$70.00€65.00
Size guide
Short sleeve · Bella + Canvas 3001
| Size | Length | Chest width |
|---|---|---|
| S | 71 / 28.0 | 46 / 18.1 |
| M | 74 / 29.1 | 51 / 20.1 |
| L | 76 / 29.9 | 56 / 22.0 |
| XL | 79 / 31.1 | 61 / 24.0 |
Long sleeve · Gildan 2400
| Size | Length | Chest width | Sleeve |
|---|---|---|---|
| S | 71 / 28.0 | 46 / 18.1 | 85 / 33.5 |
| M | 74 / 29.1 | 51 / 20.1 | 89 / 35.0 |
| L | 76 / 29.9 | 56 / 22.0 | 93 / 36.6 |
| XL | 79 / 31.1 | 61 / 24.0 | 97 / 38.2 |
Garment measured flat, in cm / inches. Slight variation occurs between pieces. Sizes follow Japanese garment standards — check the measurements rather than the letter.
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