Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy

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Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy

Date
late 1300s–1400s
Medium
Fragment of a handscroll remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper
Culture
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
152851

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Handscrolls depicting eminent poets and their poems is a classic Japanese painting genre. This fragment is the end of a scroll, the beginning of which survives in the Tokyo National Museum. It has a preface stating it is based on a selection of 36 monks paired with their waka (31-syllable poems) made by Eikai (1278–1347) from Kashūji temple in the year of his death. These two portraits are of Jōkei (1155–1212) and Myōe (1173–1232), to the right and left, respectively. The monk Myōe kept a diary of his dreams that survives in fragments today.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Provenance
?–1985: (Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1985–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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