seated figure wearing sumptuous purple, green, gold brocade robe; seated near center of image facing LR; holding string of gold rosary in both hands; exaggerated facial features, large eyebrows; several missing teeth; golden halo behind head; incense vessel and vase with flowers at PL; landscape of bamboo, a rock with cascading water, and a branch behind PR

Badara (Bhadra), the Sixth of the Sixteen Arhats, 1850

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Kano Kazunobu, a painter of the Kano school, received prestigious commissions from Buddhist temples. He was honored by the Imperial Court in 1856 for his talent and given the honorary title “Hokkyō” (Bridge of the Law). His work features Western techniques, such as foreshortening, along with traditional Buddhist motifs. The set of 16 “achievers” (rakan in Japanese, arhat in Sanskrit) to which these two examples belong is an important and rare precursor to his great masterpiece, Five Hundred Arhats, a set of 100 hanging scrolls commissioned by the Zōjōji Temple in Tokyo.

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Title
Badara (Bhadra), the Sixth of the Sixteen Arhats
Artist Life
1816 - 1863
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2013.29.665.1
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seated figure wearing sumptuous purple, green, gold brocade robe; seated near center of image facing LR; holding string of gold rosary in both hands; exaggerated facial features, large eyebrows; several missing teeth; golden halo behind head; incense vessel and vase with flowers at PL; landscape of bamboo, a rock with cascading water, and a branch behind PR