Guanyin with Willow

- Person
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作者伝牧谿賛者西巌了慧
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制作年 (AD13)
- Title
- ヨウリュウカンノンズ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 紙本墨画
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000098-0000
- 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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- Art
- AI Tagging
- Wood Handwriting Art Font Publication
This painting of Guanyin, the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, clad in white and seated in front of a vase containing a willow blanch, is attributed by tradition to Muqi (years of birth and death unknown), though there is no material evidence to support this. Almost certainly it is the work of a distinguished painter living during the Southern Song period (1127-1260). The brushwork, particularly, is extremely invigorated, notably in the ‘texture strokes’ – a traditional technique of depicting such things as drapery folds or rock surfaces – employed in the treatment of the bodhisattva’s clothing and the rocks on which he is sitting.The calligraphy accompanying the painting is inscribed by Xian Liaohui (1198-1262), celebrated as a virtuous of Pengzhou in China’s mid-Western Sichuan Province, tradition has it that as a young child, Xian, or Lo as he was known by secular surname, was already fashioning models of pagodas and images of Buddhist divinities in clay and mud. After he took his vows, he entered Chan Buddhism as a pupil of Zheseng Ruying (1151-1225), the abbot of Wanshou Monastery at Mt. Jing, later becoming a disciple of Wuzhun Shifan (1171-1249). At Jing Shan, he rose to the second seat or second highest position among the priests there. In his later years he took up the position of abbot of Jingde Monastery at Mt. Tiantong, and died in the Jingding era during the reign of Emperor Li Zong at the age of 65.
The Buddhist enlightenment is quiet; wind lightly blows the willow in the vase.Colours of mountains in the ears; the sound of water in the eyes. Amidst dust and din, the Bodhisattva permanently sits in the contemplation. Enlightenment is self-existent in the environs of the Bodhisattva’s Land. Reverently inscribed by Xian Liaohui (Seal: Xian)
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- Title (EN)
- Guanyin with Willow
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Quantity 1幅
- Attachments
- 外箱二重箱/巻止め/添状4(うちひとつは賛の譯文/題せん2/了延極札
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