Portrait of Priest Ichigyo
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- イチギョウゼンジゾウ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 絹本着色
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
The Shingon Sect of Buddhism in Japan was established by the followers of esoteric Buddhism (mikkyo), which originated in India and was brought to Japan via China. The eight priests who contributed to the development of Shingon (lit: true word) Buddhism, known as the Eight Patriarchs (Jp. Shingon Hasso), include Ryumyo (first patriarch), Ryuchi (second patriarch), Kongochi (third patriarch), Fukuu (fourth patriarch), Zenmui (fifth patriarch), Ichigo (sixth patriarch), Keika (seventh patriarch) and Kukai (eighth patriarch). The portraits of the Eight Patriarchs were displayed at the Kanjo ceremony, held when a new archbishop is sworn in. Consequently, quite a few portraits were drawn, but the only complete set of all eight patriarchs is preserved at Jingoji Temple. Obviously, many later works were patterned after or reproduced from this Jingoji set. The exhibited picture scroll of the Zen Priest Ichigyo (683-727) was also a part of the eight figures of the much-revered Shingon patriarchs. Priest Ichigyo succeeded to both Kongochi, the second, and Zenmui, the fifth patriarch. He was respected for his knowledge in chronology and mathematics. In fact, a calendar he devised was adopted by the imperial court in Nara. Here, Ichigyo is shown askance, seated at a small desk decorated with mother-of-pearl inlays toward the top, with a brown and indigo base coat on which vermillion and blue ink was used to draw small plants, flowers and pampas grass in a shikishi. Ichigyo’s short biography is written on the shikishi. The painting and writing style suggests that this exhibit was created during the Muromachi Period (15th c.)
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