Hanshan and Shide (Japanese: Kanzan and Jittoku)
701
100.0cm x 30.0cm
Ito Jakuchū (1716 – 1800)
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Hanshan and Shide (active late 8th–early 9th century) were Chan Buddhist monks who held low-level positions at Guoqingsi, a temple on China’s sacred Mount Tiantai. Turned away from the viewer here, Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”) was a reclusive monk-poet. Shide, his constant companion, carries a broom indicating his role as the temple’s janitor. The pair of figures came to represent an iconoclastic aspect of Chan (Japanese: Zen) monastic practice and was a popular theme in Japanese painting. In the Buddhist tradition, Hanshan and Shide were also honored as emanations of the bodhisattvas Monju and Fugen (Sanskrit: Manjushri and Samantabhadra), representing the virtues of wisdom and compassion. The inscription refers to this association: “One is the Bodhisattva of the Great Path. The other the Patriarch of the Great Buddha. What evidence is there? A broken broom, a tattered scripture, and unrhymed verse” (trans. Aaron Rio).
Details zum Kunstwerk
- Titel: Hanshan and Shide (Japanese: Kanzan and Jittoku)
- Künstler: Ito Jakuchū
- Jahr: 701
- Originalmaße: 100.0cm x 30.0cm
- Format: Portrait
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Gemeinfreiheit
- Farbton: Ochre to Sepia
- Empfundene Helligkeit: deep_shadow
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