Hanshan and Shide (Japanese: Kanzan and Jittoku)
701
100.0cm x 30.0cm
Itō Jakuchū (1716 – 1800)
Découvrez Itō Jakuchū (1716-1800), peintre japonais novateur de l'époque Edo ! Ses œuvres vibrantes, mêlant nature et spiritualité, révolutionnent l'art japonais.
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).
À propos de cette œuvre
- Titre: Hanshan and Shide (Japanese: Kanzan and Jittoku)
- Artiste: Itō Jakuchū
- Année: 701
- Dimensions originales: 100.0cm x 30.0cm
- Format: Portrait
- Statut du droit d'auteur: Domaine public
- Teinte de couleur: Ochre to Sepia
- Luminosité perçue: deep_shadow
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