White-robed Kannon, early 15th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Ink on silkexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.47
Not on Viewexpand_more
In this medieval Zen devotional painting, Kannon reclines on a rocky seaside ledge at his eternal dwelling, the island paradise of Fudaraku. The anonymous artist, probably a Zen priest-painter, uses carefully gradated washes of diluted ink to suggest the damp surface of the rocky ledge and the mistiness of Kannon’s watery paradise. Numerous forms of the bodhisattva Kannon exist within the vast Buddhist pantheon, including abstruse forms with eleven heads and a thousand arms. The strikingly human form of Kannon seen here, wearing white robes and seated in nature, was popular in the Zen school of Buddhism.
Details
- Title
- White-robed Kannon
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.47
- Provenance
- Gift from Chauncy Griggs, Tacoma, Washington, December 1983, to Mary Burke
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 93
- Curator Approved
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