Kake-mono, 掛物, hang-thing; calligraphy, En–sō, 円相, Circle-aspect, ‘Byō-jō-shin Kore-dō’, 平常心是道, Level-ever-mind/heart is way. Calligraphy by Yama-da Hō-in, 山田法胤 Mountain-field Law-descendant, abbot of Yaku-shi-ji, 薬師寺, Medicine-master-temple, Na–ra, 奈良, What-good: L. 5.5 shaku kane-jaku.  The phrase beneath the ensō is inspired by the Zen teaching story wherein the monk, Jō-shū, 趙州, Hasten-state, asked priest, Nan-sen, 南泉, South-spring, how to attain enlightenment, Nansen replied ‘Ordinary heart is the way’.   A hanging scroll, kake-jiku, 掛軸, is attached to a half-round wooden dowel, hyō-moku, 表木, surface-wood, which has the shape described as either han-getsu, 半月, half-moon, or ha-ssō, 八双, eight-pair. Prior to the middle Edo period, the hyōmoku was often triangular,...