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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Crane with Bamboo [right of a triptych of White-Robed Kannon and Cranes]
Attributed to Kano Tan'yūLinkedCulture matchlcp-f691f20135c8
- Date
- 17th century
- Medium
- Hanging scroll, right of a triptych, ink on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 122117
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
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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- Credit line
- Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation
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