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Bankei Yōtaku (盤珪永琢, 1622~1693) was a well-known Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist master, and the abbot of the Ryomon-ji and Nyoho-ji.

Bankei is most well known for his talks on the "Unborn" as he called it. Bankei's brilliance and directness reminds one of the style and approach of the ancient masters of the Ch'an tradition during the T'ang Dynasty.

Bankei evolved his personal calligraphic style. Other monks have made this circle with a single stroke, symbolizing the all, the void, and the moment of enlightenment when samsara, this world of sorrow, becomes nirvana. Bankei, ever the individualist, used two strokes, each strongly and quickly articulated. The effect is to give an entirely new meaning to the form; the strokes enclose each other like an embrace yet still suggest both emptiness and completion.

Guess where Sushi Mono's symbol came from?

Again, in Japanese "mono" means "human being(者)" and also it means "things in universe(物)". In English, we could say it represents "One". Hence, Sushi Mono logo has a meaning of "unify all things in universe".

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