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Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) was a Japanese monk of the Rinzai (臨在宗) sect (one of the ramifications of the Zen branch of Buddhism). He was known for his controversial teachings and writings, as well as for his lighthearted sumi-e paintings. After spending half of his life in Nagata near Yokohama, he secluded himself in Shōfukuji (located in Fukuoka), the first Zen Temple in Japan, where he spent the rest of his life.
Though the Rinzai sect is particularly known for its hard-to-understand teachings, Sengai tried to make them accessible to the public.
One of his famous paintings shows a circle, a square and a triangle. The English translation of the title is "Universe".
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