| Accession Nr.: | 6735 |
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| Type: | painting |
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| Date of production: |
early 19th century
Edo (Tokugawa) period |
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| Acquisition: | collected by Péter Vay |
Two Chinese hermits—known in Japanese as Kanzan (Chinese: Hanshan) and Jittoku (Chinese: Shide)—lived near the sacred mountain Tiantaishan during the Tang dynasty (618–907). They appear frequently in Zen Buddhist paintings, representing rejection of the secular world and the search for enlightenment.
