Self Guided Tour
A Sash of Clouds
A Sash of Clouds, after 1678 Gaoquan Xingdun 高泉性潡 (Jp. Kōsen Shōton, 1633-1695) Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 167.8 x 38 cm Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Purchase—funds provided by the Friends of...
An Accomplished Spirit
An Accomplished Spirit, mid-17th century Jifei Ruyi 即非如一 (Jp. Sokuhi Nyoitsu, 1616-1671) Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 131.5 x 36.8 cm; 215.9 x 38.5 cm (mounted) Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Museum purchase: Friends of the...
Arhat Reading a Sutra by Moonlight
Arhat Reading a Sutra by Moonlight, mid-17th century Jifei Ruyi 即非如一 (Jp. Sokuhi Nyoitsu, 1616-1671) Inscribed by the artist Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 27.5 x 60.6 cm; 112.4 x 62.5 cm (mounted) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Harry...
Bean Vine
Bean Vine, mid-18th century Itō Jakuchū 伊藤 若冲 (1716–1800) Inscribed by Musen Jōzen 無染淨善, 1693–1764 Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 125.7 x 47.9 cm; 192.1 x 61.6 cm (mounted) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen...
Calligraphy of Five-Character Zen Phrases in Semicursive Script
Calligraphy of Five-Character Zen Phrases in Semicursive Script, c. 1678-1692 Gaoquan Xingdun 高泉性潡 (Jp. Kōsen Shōton, 1633-1695) Japan, Edo Period, 1615-1868 Hanging scrolls, ink on paper Each scroll, 219.7 x 49.5 cm (mounted) Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by...
Carrying the faith alone is unthinkable, After receiving enlightenment one sees clearly, Not establishing a word
Carrying the faith alone is unthinkable (Tan teikyo gaishi), right After receiving enlightenment one sees clearly (Cho monkai seigan), middle Not establishing a word (Furyu ichi moji), left, 17th century Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō, 1611-1684) Japan, Edo...
Chinese Poem to Celebrate a Senior Monk’s Sixtieth Birthday
Chinese Poem to Celebrate a Senior Monk’s Sixtieth Birthday, late 17th-early 18th century Duzhan Xingying 獨湛性瑩 (Jp. Dokutan Shōkei, 1628-1706) Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 128.5 × 40.7 cm; 222 x 55.2 cm (mounted) The Metropolitan Museum...
Chinese Temple Landscape
Chinese Temple Landscape, 18th century Itō Jakuchū 伊藤 若冲 (1716–1800) Later inscription by Goto Shoin 後藤松陰 (1797-1864) Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 101.6 x 28.4 cm The Manyo’an Collection of Japanese Art, the Gitter-Yelin Foundation,...
Eighteen Arhats
Eighteen Arhats, 19th century Tradition of Wu Bin (c. 1550-1621) Japan, 19th century Handscroll, ink and color on paper (detail) 28.58 x 548.01 cm; 29.69 x 606.11 cm (mounted) Minneapolis Institute of Art, Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson...
Figure of an arhat
Arhat, late 17th century Shōun Genkei 松雲元慶 (1648-1710) Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Lacquered wood with traces of gilding One of a set of five hundred, from the Tokyo temple Gohyaku Rakanji, 92.7 x 78.7 x 71.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase...
First Patriarch, Great Master Bodhidharma
First Patriarch, Great Master Bodhidharma, mid-17th century Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō, 1611-1684) Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 139.7 x 29.2 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by Andrea M. Baldeck,...
Five Hundred Arhats, in the Garden of the Kyoto Temple Sekihōji
Five Hundred Arhats, in the Garden of the Kyoto Temple Sekihōji, 1789 Itō Jakuchū 伊藤 若冲 (1716–1800) Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 50.3 x 71.6 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased with funds donated by Allan Myers AO and...
Flowers and Plants of the Four Seasons
Flowers and Plants of the Four Seasons, 1774 Kakutei 鶴亭 (1722–1785) Japan, Edo period, 1615–1868 Pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper 171.1 x 61.6 cm (painting, each panel) Saint Louis Art Museum, The Langenberg Endowment Fund and Museum Shop Fund,...
Four-Line Poem in Cursive Script
Four-Line Poem in Cursive Script, 17th century Duli Xingyi 獨立性易 (Jp. Dokuryū Shōeki, 1596-1672) Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 23.5 x 25 cm; 105.6 x 35.2 cm (mounted) Collection of Stuart Katz With just one call of the rooster, Startled...
Lotus Flower Hall
Lotus Flower Hall, 1704 Calligrapher: Duzhan Xingying 獨湛性瑩 (Jp. Dokutan Shōkei, 1628-1706) Inscribed and dated on the reverse by Ikka Genkai乙華元開 (active c. 1704) Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Temple signboard, ink, color, gold leaf, wood 66 x 105 x 12 cm Spencer...
My heart is like the autumn moon
Chinese poem by Hanshan, “My heart is like the autumn moon,” 1760 Baisaō 売茶翁 (1675-1763) Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 28.5 x 50 cm; 114.5 x 64 cm (mounted) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary...
Ōbakusan Temple in Uji
Ōbakusan Temple in Uji, 20th century Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水 (1883–1957) Japan, 20th century Watercolors on paper 55.4 × 41.0 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Bruce Goff Archive, gift of Shin'enkan, Inc., 1990.607.350 Photo Credit: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource,...
Portrait of Duli Xingyi 獨立性易 (Jp. Dokuryū Shōeki)
Portrait of Duli Xingyi 獨立性易 (Jp. Dokuryū Shōeki, 1596-1672) Kita Genki 喜多元規 (active c. 1663-1709) Self-eulogy dated 1671 Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper 111.4 x 50.1 cm; 211.8 x 63.8 cm (mounted) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr....
Portrait of Jifei Ruyi 即非如一 (Jp. Sokuhi Nyoitsu)
Portrait of Jifei Ruyi 即非如一 (Jp. Sokuhi Nyoitsu, 1616-1671) Kita Genki 喜多元規 (active c. 1663-1709) Self-eulogy, 1666 Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk 109.5 x 44 cm; 201.3 x 56.5 cm (mounted) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Harry...
Portrait of Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō)
Portrait of Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō, 1611-1684) Kita Genki 喜多元規 (active c. 1663-1709) Self-eulogy, 1674 Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk 109.5 × 41.9 cm; 202.2 x 59.4 cm (mounted) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of...
Portrait of Yinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦 (Jp. Ingen Ryūki)
Portrait of Yinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦 (Jp. Ingen Ryūki, 1592-1673) Tradition of Kita Genki 喜多元規 (active c. 1663-1709) Eulogy by Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō, 1611-1684), 1676 Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk 119.4 x 57.8 cm;...
Purification at the Orchid Pavilion
Purification at the Orchid Pavilion, 1671 Fan Yi 樊沂 (c. 1615 -before 1688) Frontispiece and colophon by Manpukuji's 7th Abbot, Yueshan Daozong 悅山道宗 (Jp. Etsuzan Dōshū, 1629-1709), 1707 China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) Handscroll, ink and color on silk 28.4 x...
Purification at the Orchid Pavilion, 1671
Detail 1: Guests composing poetry and drinking rice wine from cups floating down the stream. Detail 2: Wang Xizhi王羲之 (303 AD– 361 AD), China's most esteemed calligrapher, with friends and child attendants, in a pavilion watching the movement of geese in the water,...
Sazai Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakanji Sazaidō)
Sazai Hall at the Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku Rakanji Sazaidō), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), ca. 1830–32 Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 1760-1849) Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Woodblock print; ink and color on...
Sparrow on a blossoming plum tree
Sparrow on a blossoming plum tree, 1661 Kanō Tan’yū 狩野 探幽 (1602-1674) Inscribed and dated by Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō, 1611-1684) Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Ink on paper 32.7 × 56.2 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased through The...
The meaning of Bodhidharma’s coming from the West can only be looked at after kalpas returning
The meaning of Bodhidharma's coming from the West can only be looked at after kalpas returning, 1656 Feiyin Tongrong 費隠通容 (Jp. Hiin Tsūyō, 1593-1661) Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 127 x 29 cm, 194 x 31 cm (mounted) Collection of Harald...
The Way of the Patriarchs spans a thousand years
The Way of the Patriarchs spans a thousand years, mid-17th century Yinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦 (Jp. Ingen Ryūki, 1592-1673) Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) Hanging scroll, ink on paper 119.4 x 27.9 cm; 204.5 x 39.4 cm (mounted) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Florence...
Triptych of Three Zen Masters: Deshan, Bodhidharma, and Linji
Triptych of Three Zen Masters: Deshan, Bodhidharma, and Linji Yiran Xingrong 逸然性融 (Jp. Itsunen Shōyū, 1616-1671) Eulogies by Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō, 1611-1684), 1658 Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper Each scroll:...
Twenty-four Buddhist Figures, featuring the Eighteen Arhats with Śākyamuni, White-Robed Guanyin (Avalokiteśvara), and Xuanzang
Twenty-four Buddhist Figures, featuring the Eighteen Arhats with Śākyamuni, White-Robed Guanyin(Avalokiteśvara), and Xuanzang, 1643 Chen Xian 陳賢 (Jp. Chinken, active c. mid-17th century) Frontispiece: Feng lin (Phoenix Grove) by Muan Xingtao 木菴性瑫 (Jp. Mokuan Shōtō,...
Udonge
Udonge (flower of the cluster fig, or udumbara in Sanskrit), 1741 Yinyuan Longqi 隱元隆琦 (Jp. Ingen Ryūki, 1592-1673), calligrapher Inscribed and dated with the name of the donor, a Buddhist nun Japan, Edo Period (1615-1868) Temple signboard, lacquer and gold on wood 59...