Rain-coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mt. Tiantai
- Medium
- handscroll, ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.5 x 142.6 cm (13 9/16 x 56 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- painting
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
About
The subject is not just Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang Province, the ancient seat of the most powerful Buddhist sect of Sui and Tang dynasties, but records a specific occasion in 1838 when an official visited Tiantai and began the reconstruction of a historic pavilion. As this coincided with the end of a long drought, the building was auspiciously renamed the Yulai (Rain-Coming 雨來) Pavilion. Ten years later, Dai Xi painted this handscroll to commemorate the occasion.