White-robed Kannon
- Medium
- Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 38 1/4 × 12 13/16 in. (97.16 × 32.54 cm) (image) 68 1/2 × 17 3/8 in. (173.99 × 44.13 cm) (mount, without roller)
- Genre
- Painting
Tags
Japan
About
Buddhist monks, particularly those of the Zen school, were devoted landscape painters. Like calligraphy, painting was considered part of the spiritual training necessary for enlightenment. Zen monks favored monochrome ink painting due to its simplicity and straightforwardness. The priest Kenkō Shōkei, who served as secretary at Kenchōji Temple in Kamakura, studied Chinese paintings from the Song and Yuan dynasties and became a key figure in the ink-painting circles of Japan. (2013.29.143.1-.3)
![Landscape [left of a triptych of White-Robed Kannon with Landscapes]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/117159.jpg)
