Ryōkan is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Japanese Zen monk Ryōkan left brushwork as spare and quiet as his life. His 1794 scroll “Calligraphy「鵬齋逸才子」書” shows a single phrase drifting across the paper, a single work you can trace from line to line. If the simplicity feels familiar, look next at the same scroll’s characters, or step sideways into the blank margins that Ryōkan prized more than ink.