Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait Study of Seigen
- Date
- 1300s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 151007
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This is a portrait study of the monk Seigen (1162–1231). The inscription identifies him and notes that the study is after a portrait in the subtemple Jizō’in at Daigoji. The artist included scars from an illness, and made notations about the colors the clothing should be. Seigen was abbot of Daigoji, one of the most influential Esoteric Buddhist temples in Japanese history. The blotches on the monk's face may have been caused by smallpox.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1982: (Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan,sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1982-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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