Rei Shōjo (Ling Zhaonu)
Medium
hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
183.4 × 49.3 cm · image: 97.6 × 37.2 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi
Accession Number
1995.245
Tags
male
About this artwork
Legend has it that Chinese beauty Ling Zhaonu, whose name is pronounced Rei Shōjo in Japanese, was a model of devotion to her parents. She put great effort into selling baskets made by her elderly father, a devout Buddhist, thereby keeping the family afloat financially. The verse on the painting relates her story, and was inscribed by a Zen monk.