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Badara (Bhadra), the Sixth of the Sixteen Arhats

Kano KazunobuLinkedCulture matchlcp-c416cd2d3597

Date: 1850
Medium: Hanging scroll, ink, color, and gold on silk
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 117805

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Kano Kazunobu, a painter of the Kano school, received prestigious commissions from Buddhist temples. He was honored by the Imperial Court in 1856 for his talent and given the honorary title “Hokkyō” (Bridge of the Law). His work features Western techniques, such as foreshortening, along with traditional Buddhist motifs. The set of 16 “achievers” (rakan in Japanese, arhat in Sanskrit) to which these two examples belong is an important and rare precursor to his great masterpiece, Five Hundred Arhats, a set of 100 hanging scrolls commissioned by the Zōjōji Temple in Tokyo. Asia

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Credit line: Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture

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