National Museum of Asian Art
The Chinese Taoist Immortals, Han-shan and Shih-te (Kanzan and Jittoku)
Hashimoto Gaho 橋本雅邦 (1835-1908) · 1886
The Chinese hermits known in Japanese as Kanzan (Hanshan in Chinese) and Jittoku (Shide in Chinese), lived near the sacred mountain Tiantaishan during the Tang dynasty (618-907). They appear frequently in Zen Buddhist paintings, in which they represent rejection of the secular world. Here Kanzan opens a scroll of his poetry, while Jittoku, a servant at a monastery, looks on.
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