painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.64.JA
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll, right in a set of three (with Jap.Ptg.3494 & 3495). The deity Aizen Myo-o. Ink and colour on silk.
- Production date
- 1715
- Dimensions
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Height: 133.50 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 58.50 centimetres
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Width: 45.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 28.30 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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The identification derives from an accompanying certificate (dated 1715) of the 'eye-opening' (kaigen), or dedication, of the triptych of paintings, signed by a monk Tomohide. Ganzan Daishi (left) was a monk of the Tendai sect who died in AD 985. He is seated on a dais before a screen with two diminutive attendants, venerating images of Dainichi (centre) and Aizen Myoo (S: Ragaraja, right), the 'King of Passion' who symbolises the identity of human passion with enlightenment. Each painting is signed Norifusa, who announces he is a later follower of [Kanda] Sotei (1590-1662) of the painting academy (located at Kan'ei-ji Temple, Edo). Since Kan'ei-ji was a Tendai sect temple, the depiction of Ganzan is appropriate. (label copy, TTC, 1998)
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'Ganzan'
'By Ki hō, of the school of Sōtei. (Muné-niwa is an incorrect reading of Sōtei.)' 'Kano Sch. 18th cent.' (unattributed annotations in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2000 26 Jun-24 Sep, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan Time'
2008 Jun-Oct 10, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2011 Oct – 2012 Feb, BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan from Prehistory to the Present’
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.64.JA
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.3493 (Japanese Painting Number)