Sujet
Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy (Shakkyo Kasen Emaki), 1300s-1400s. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy (Shakkyo Kasen Emaki), 1300s-1400s. 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 Kashuji temple in the year of his death. These two portraits are of Jokei (1155-1212) and Myoe (1173-1232), to the right and left, respectively.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F99_428
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
104,1Mo (8,3Mo) / 62,7cm x 41,6cm / 7408 x 4914 (300dpi)