Arhats

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Attributed to Zhou Danshi

  • Yuan Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, China, 14-15th century
  • color on silk

Paintings – Japanese / Asian Paintings

Zhou Danshi known as the artist of this scroll is considered to be a occupational painter who came from China with a priest Shunjo of the Sennyuji Temple, and is mentioned in the collection of essays on art, Kuntaikansochoki. Although it is a pair at the present, these were originally two of sixteen or eighteen arhats paintings, and stout bodies show the style of Taoist and Buddhist portraits of the Yuan Dynasty.（「New Edition　Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan　Vol.1」2003）

  • Arhats
  • Right scroll
    Right scroll
  • Left scroll
    Left scroll

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Title/Name Arhats
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Creator		 Attributed to Zhou Danshi
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Century 14c.
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Technique		 color on silk
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Place		 Kyoto
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No.		 SZK000151
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Arhats

Arhats

Zhou Danshi known as the artist of this scroll is considered to be a occupational painter who came from China with a priest Shunjo of the Sennyuji Temple, and is mentioned in the collection of essays on art, Kuntaikansochoki. Although it is a pair at the present, these were originally two of sixteen or eighteen arhats paintings, and stout bodies show the style of Taoist and Buddhist portraits of the Yuan Dynasty.（「New Edition　Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan　Vol.1」2003）

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