Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy
Unknown Artist
late 1300s–1400s
Medium
Fragment of a handscroll remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper
Dimensions
painting: 29.1 × 44.5 cm · mounted: 113.2 × 56.6 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Accession Number
1985.88
About this artwork
Handscrolls depicting eminent poets and their poems is a classic Japanese painting genre. This fragment is the end of a scroll, the beginning of which survives in the Tokyo National Museum. It has a preface stating it is based on a selection of 36 monks paired with their waka (31-syllable poems) made by Eikai (1278–1347) from Kashūji temple in the year of his death. These two portraits are of Jōkei (1155–1212) and Myōe (1173–1232), to the right and left, respectively.