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Portrait of Hakuin

Sui

Artwork Details

Portrait of Hakuin
1760-1789
Sui
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern
1987/2.39

Description

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. 

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