金處士筆 十王図の内|Ten Kings of Hell
before 1195
Medium
One of five of a set of ten hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 51 x 19 1/2 in. (129.5 x 49.5 cm) Overall with knobs: 80 x 27 1/2 in. (203.2 x 69.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
China · Song dynasty (960–1279)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.76.292
Tags
About this artwork
This monumental hanging scroll by Jin Chushi represents one of five surviving panels from a complete set of ten illustrating the Buddhist "Ten Kings of Hell," created before 1195 during China's Song dynasty (960-1279). The theme, which developed during the Tang dynasty's second half (618-907), transforms Indian Buddhist concepts of post-mortem judgment into a distinctly Chinese bureaucratic process. Jin Chushi, a Buddhist layman working in Mingzhou (modern Ningbo), created these works in a profe...