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Crane with Pine [left of a triptych of White-Robed Kannon and Cranes]

Attributed to Kano Tan'yūLinkedCulture matchlcp-f691f20135c8

Date: 1664
Medium: Hanging scroll, left of a triptych, ink on paper
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 122119

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Avalokiteshvara, known in Japanese as Kannon, is one of the most popular deities in Zen Buddhism. From the 1300s through the 1500s, Zen painters in Japan frequently created monochrome ink paintings of Kannon relaxing in nature. Nearly 200 years later, a professional painter, Kano Tan’yū, borrowed from this long tradition for this triptych, showing the deity in the center resting on a boulder beneath a waterfall and gazing down at the waves below. As is common with devotional triptychs, the central deity is flanked by complementary images of birds, in this case cranes with bamboo and a pine tree. Asia

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