Accession Number
1987/2.39

Title
Portrait of Hakuin

Artist(s)
Sui

Object Creation Date
1760-1789

Medium & Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper

Dimensions
( )

Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern

Subject matter
Hakuin Ekaku, the portrait in the painting is one of the most influential people of Zen Buddhism. He is considered the revived of the Rinzai school and is the subject of many paintings. 

Physical Description
In the bottom third of the painting is a portrait of a man looking to the left (of the viewer's pov). Above him are two separate sections of inscriptions. The one on the right is toward the middle of the length of the page and is two lines. Directly above it is two red seals. To the left of the seals begins the second inscription written in five lines and larger characters. At the upper left is a red seal slightly obscured by the five-line inscription. 

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
hanging scroll

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Keywords
calligraphy
half-length