Weizheng Riding on an Ox
1687
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 116.5 × 39 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-112576
The inscription at the top of this painting was brushed by Ōbaku school monk Nanyuan Xingpai (Japanese: Nangen Shōha), a Chinese Buddhist monk who emigrated to Japan in 1654, while the painting was done in ink by Yamaguchi Sekkei, a Japanese painter active in Kyoto who was known for his Buddhist subjects, many of which remain in temples today. The figure here reads a text while riding backward upon a water buffalo. Sekkei's painting depicts the Chinese monk Weizheng (986–1049), also known as "Zheng of the Yellow Ox" after his favored mount. Nanyuan's inscription is a poem about the monk.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Nisaburo Mizutani, 1973.86
Registry history
- 1687 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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