Minneapolis Institute of Art
Ajita, the Fifteenth 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
- 117804
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
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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