Hanshan and Shide
1770 · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions 117 × 39 cm
Hanshan and Shide were low level Buddhist monks. Hanshan (Cold Mountain) who has his back turned from the viewer was a poet and Shide his constant companion was a janitor as his broom indicates where representations of the virtues of compassion and wisdom. The poem and calligraphy attributed to Ike Taiga reads "One is the Bodhisattva of the Great Path. The other the Patriarch of the Great Buddha. What evidence is there? A broken broom, a tattered scripture, and unrhymed verse”.
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Hanshan and Shide (1770) by Ito Jakuchu, Hanging scroll; ink on paper.
About Ito Jakuchu
Itō Jakuchū (2 March 1716 – 27 October 1800) was a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period when Japan had closed its doors to the outside world. Many of his paintings concern traditionally Japanese subjects, particularly chickens and other birds.
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