Monk Tanka Burning a Buddha Image (Tanka sho butsu 丹霞焼仏)
Monk Tanka Burning a Buddha Image (Tanka sho butsu 丹霞焼仏)
Monk Tanka Burning a Buddha Image (Tanka sho butsu 丹霞焼仏)
Monk Tanka Burning a Buddha Image (Tanka sho butsu 丹霞焼仏)

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Monk Tanka Burning a Buddha Image (Tanka sho butsu 丹霞焼仏),

late 1780s

Nagasawa Rosetsu 長沢芦雪, 1754–1799
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2020-379

Information

Title
Monk Tanka Burning a Buddha Image (Tanka sho butsu 丹霞焼仏)
Dates

late 1780s

Maker
Nagasawa Rosetsu 長沢芦雪
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 114.8 × 27.5 cm (45 3/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from the Gitter-Yelen Collection and Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2020-379
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Signatures
Signed: 蘆雪写意 Rosetsu sha-i
Inscription
Inscribed: “By order of”
Marks/Labels/Seals
Seal: 長澤 魚 Nagasawa Gyo
Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
paintings, scroll paintings, hanging scroll, calligraphy (writing)
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink, colorant
Techniques
painting (image-making)
Subject
men, Zen

1998–2020 Gitter-Yelen Collection (New Orleans, LA), by gift and sold to the Princeton University art Museum, 2020.

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