The Chinese Taoist Immortals, Han-shan and Shih-te (Kanzan and Jittoku)
1886
- Medium
- Ink and slight tint on paper
- Dimensions
- 122 × 58.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-124113
The Chinese hermits known in Japanese as Kanzan (Hanshan in Chinese) and Jittoku (Shide in Chinese), lived near the sacred mountain Tiantaishan during the Tang dynasty (618-907). They appear frequently in Zen Buddhist paintings, in which they represent rejection of the secular world. Here Kanzan opens a scroll of his poetry, while Jittoku, a servant at a monastery, looks on.
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 1886 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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