Exchange: W19 Brose - ASIAN 325

W19 Brose - ASIAN 325 - Zen Buddhism

Yiran Xingrong (J. Itsunen)
Linji, from triptych of Three Zen Masters: Linji, Bodhidharma and Deshan
1658
ink and color | paper, hanging scroll
Museum purchase, Acquisition Fund
1975/2.183

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Yiran Xingrong (J. Itsunen)
Bodhidharma, from triptych of Three Zen Masters: Linji, Bodhidharma and Deshan
1658
ink and light color | paper, hanging scroll
Museum purchase, Acquisition Fund
1975/2.182

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Chinese
Bodhidharma Crossing the Yangzi River on a Reed
1575 – 1585
ink | silk
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1969/1.103

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The shape of the circle repeats four times in this painting. It appears in the plump body of Hotei, his head, his large white sack, and the overall shape of the fan.

Ogata Kōrin
Hotei
ink and light color on paper
8 3/8 in x 8 7/8 in (21.3 cm x 22.5 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

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A woodblock print on paper depicting the image of a woman in a red robe and holding a smoking pipe. A corresponding poem inscribed at the top in both Chinese and Japanese.

Kitao Masanobu
Red-Robed Courtesan (parody of Bodhidharma)
color woodblock pillar print on paper
36 in. x 8 in. ( 91.4 cm x 20.3 cm )
Museum Purchase

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The composition is a well-established type: a complex of temple buildings is tucked into a mountainside, on the shore of a broad body of water, with mists rising to obscure the distant peaks. The artist provides a path leading from the viewer’s space to the temple. Two travelers go before us, a hooded figure riding a donkey over a rustic bridge, and another man striding along on foot, further ahead. The temple buildings themselves are hidden behind thick foliage, as if protected from the secular world.Here the forms of the rocky outcroppings, the trees, and even the mountains are starkly outlined, and there are strong contrasts of light and dark. These features suggest that this is a work of by a professional Kanô School artist, probably of the seventeenth century.

Kanō School
Temple in the Mountains
hanging scroll, ink on paper
32 11/16 in x 5 3/16 in (83.03 cm x 13.18 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Province M. Henry

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Chinese
Herdboy and Buffalo in the Moonlight
hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
36 1/2 in x 14 3/8 in (92.7 cm x 36.5 cm)
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

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Japanese
Buddhist Surplice
patchwork silk brocade, with ivory ring
33 7/8 in. x 20 7/8 in. ( 86 cm x 53 cm )
Gift of Ulrich and Sarah Straus, in memory of H. Alexander Straus

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A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.

Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: Adoration of the Buddha Dimpakara, Conception, Prophecy, Birth (architectural fragment)
stone
6 1/2 in. x 15 3/8 in. x 2 5/16 in. ( 16.5 cm x 39 cm x 5.8 cm )
Gift of Iuliana and Mark Phillips

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Guanyin is sitting on a decorative chair. She is wearing a robe and a necklace, and her left arm is in front pf her holding a bottle.

Chinese
The Bodhisattva Guanyin
Blanc de Chine glaze on porcelain
8 1/16 in. x 4 5/16 in. x 2 15/16 in. ( 20.5 cm x 11 cm x 7.5 cm )
Gift of Willard A. and Marybelle Bouchard Hanna

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