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Artist:
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Unknown
Attributed to Chiang Kuei
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Title:
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The Immortal Hanshan
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Date:
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c. 1500
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Medium:
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Ink on silk
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Dimensions:
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64 15/16 x 37 7/16 in. (164.94 x 95.09 cm) (image)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton
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Location:
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Gallery 203
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A popular Chan (Buddhist) personality, Hanshan is known mainly through the Tang dynasty (618-906) anthology Cold Mountain Poems (Hanshan shi). The poems describe the amiable hermit as wearing simple clothing and living a carefree life as a wanderer on Cold Mountain (Hanshan). An unkempt Hanshan is shown sitting cross-legged, holding a brush beneath a tree tangled with vines. The inkstone and scroll on the ground beside him identify him as a poet. While Hanshan had a Buddhist outlook, he is shown here wearing a girdle of leaves carrying a double gourd, accessories associated with the Daoist immortals. Hanshan, in fact, followed popular Daoist practices and his poetry makes a number of references to philosophical and religious Daoism as well as the quest for long life and immortality. Hanshan was considered a san sheng or "saintly person of unofficial status."
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Kuei, Chiang
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Nationality:
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Chinese
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Name:
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Unknown
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Smiling seated man with thin, wild black hair, holding a brush in his PR hand; rocks and tree at left with mountains in background
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Creation Place:
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Asia, China, , ,
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Accession #:
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99.123.1
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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