Is "Gama Sennin (Chinese Hou Xiansheng) and his three-legged toad" in the public domain?

Yes, Gama Sennin (Chinese Hou Xiansheng) and his three-legged toad is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Gama Sennin (Chinese Hou Xiansheng) and his three-legged toad

Q: When was "Gama Sennin (Chinese Hou Xiansheng) and his three-legged toad" created?

This artwork was created 18th century.

Soga Shohaku æ¾æèç½ (1730-1781)

18th century

Classification

Painting

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Accession Number

F1904.192

Tags

Charles Lang Freer collectionEdo period (1615 - 1868)JapanJapanese Artkakemonotoad

About this artwork

Hou Xiansheng, known in Japanese as Gama Sennin, was one of many Chinese Daoist immortals who were assimilated into the repertoire of Japanese popular legends. Like the eccentric Zen Buddhist sages Kanzan and Jittoku (Chinese, Hanshan and Shide), Gama Sennin is portrayed in disheveled garments and is always accompanied by his three-legged toad, who rides nestled in his unkempt hair. Soga Shohaku, one of the important individualist painters who emerged in the eighteenth century, created this live...

Gama Sennin (Chinese Hou Xiansheng) and his three-legged toad

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