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Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjo) with Attendant (Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 29.160.29)

Buddhist Art

A hanging scroll in ink and color on silk, Japan, Kamakura period, 14th century, painted in the style of Kasuga Motomitsu, showing the Tang-dynasty pilgrim monk Xuanzang traveling with an attendant. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 29.160.29, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929.

Facts
Origins
Region
Nara, Japan, home of the Kasuga Shrine and Kofukuji temple complex whose associated court painting lineage, carried by artists working in the Kasuga Motomitsu style, this scroll follows. 1
Physical Form
Medium
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, Japan, Kamakura period, 14th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art 29.160.29 1
Classification
Object Type
Painting 1
Medium (class)
Painting (general) 1
Connections

Belongs to Tradition

Buddhism, Religions
Source Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjo) with Attendant, accession 29.160.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Depicts

Xuanzang, Figures

The scroll's directly named subject per the museum's own title, tagged by the museum as a portrait of a monk, matching the corroborating Wikipedia record's account of Xuanzang's Kamakura-period portrait tradition.

Source Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjo) with Attendant, accession 29.160.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Additional Source Xuanzang (Wikipedia)

Originated In

Japan, Regions
Source Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjo) with Attendant, accession 29.160.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Authored By

Kasuga Motomitsu

Also in Arts and Music Atlas: the author of this subject.

Sources
1. Portrait of Xuanzang (Genjo) with Attendant, accession 29.160.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • catalogue record, medium/object-type description
    A hanging scroll in ink and color on silk, Japan, Kamakura period, 14th century, painted in the style of Kasuga Motomitsu, showing the Tang-dynasty pilgrim monk Xuanzang traveling with an attendant.
  • Originated In: Japan, Collection record: culture, country and region fields
    Japan
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Xuanzang (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: Xuanzang
Quote, Depicts: Xuanzang
14th-century painting of Xuanzang, Japan, Kamakura period
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