Cleveland Museum of Art
Hanshan and Shide
Ike TaigaLinkedCulture matchlcp-72d355cf4f68
- Date
- c. 1745–76
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149656
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Hanshan and Shide are a pair of individuals associated with Chan, or Zen, Buddhism who lived on Mount Tiantai in China around the 700s to early 800s. In Japan, their names are read Kanzan and Jittoku. Hanshan, whose name means “Cold Mountain,” was a monk-poet, shown reading out from a scroll of his poetry in this work. His close friend Shide, or “Foundling,” was a temple’s custodian. Here, Shide listens intently to Hanshan’s verses, his brush broom behind him.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?–1979: (Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1979–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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