Picture of Drunken Lu Zhishen Smashing a Vajra Warrior at the Temple of Mount Wutai

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Picture of Drunken Lu Zhishen Smashing a Vajra Warrior at the Temple of Mount Wutai

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Publisher: Matsui Eikichi; Carver: Takimoto ChokuzanLinkedCulture matchlcp-84819e51dedb

Date
September 1887
Medium
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
127897

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Like another vertical diptych nearby, this one takes its motif from the popular Chinese novel The Tales of the Water Margin (Shuihuzhuan; Jap.: Suikoden). In it, Lu Zhishen is a policeman who accidentally kills a man and must flee his village. He enters a monastery where he receives the nickname Flowery Monk, since his upper body is adorned with tattoos of flowers. Bored by monastic life, he gets drunk, and on his return to the temple he is refused entry. In a rage, he demolishes one of the two large vajra warrior sculptures that guard the temple gate. The entrance to Mia’s Japanese Buddhist gallery is guarded by such a pair of vajra warriors. Asia

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The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, gifts of various donors, by exchange, and gift of Edmond Freis in memory of his parents, Rose and Leon Freis

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