Image of Tenjin crossing to Tang China
- Person
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作者伝赤脚子
- Date
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- トトウテンジンゾウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 紙本着色
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-001204-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
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- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Handwriting Art Painting Font Paper
Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) was a great scholar and statesman, and was deified after death as Tenjin, patron saint of learning. This painting is an imaginary portrait of him, based upon the legendary tale that he went over China where he studied Zen Buddhism with Wuzhun Shifan (1177-1249) of the Jingshan Temple. He is shown wearing a hood and robe of a Taoist monk, and holding a blossoming plum branch. It is an allusion to the anecdote that when banished to Dazaifu in Kyushu due to slander of his political opponent he composed a poem of farewell to the plum in his garden which he had loved so dearly. The composition showing him in frontal pose proves that the painting was intended as an object of religious worship. Above the picture is a lengthy inscription written in small characters, describing the origin of the Toto Tenjin (Tenjin crossing to Tang China) theme. The inscription was handwritten by the Zen priest Gukyoku Reisai (1370-1452) who held abbotship at the Tofukuji and Nanzenji temple in Kyoto and at the Kenchoji temple in Kamakura. The year written at the end reveals that it was written on May 14, 1436 when Gukyoku was sixty-seven.The artist of this painting is known, from the seal mark at the lower right coner, to be Sekkyakushi, a priest-painter and disciple of Mincho (1351-1431) of the Tofukuji temple. Sekkyakushi is an artist name, it means a bare-footed man. The name derives from a verse by the Tang poet Du Fu (712-770) and refers to a poor-looking man.
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- Image of Tenjin crossing to Tang China
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