Eighteen Rakan, 19th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Ink and color on paperexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.190
Not on Viewexpand_more
This long handscroll features a ragtag crew of misfits, some riding turtles or catfish, and often with quite unkempt appearances. They are the devout and miraculous, but eccentric followers of the Buddha known as Rakan (or Arhat in Sanskrit). This work was painted in the tradition of the late Ming-dynasty Chinese painter Wu Bin (ca. 1550–1621), whose works or those of his followers might have found their way to Nagasaki, where local painters took up Wu’s archaic figural style.
Details
- Title
- Eighteen Rakan
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.190
- Provenance
- Hekiko Sōdō Richard Lane until December, 1965 Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 448
- Curator Approved
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