Daruma Facing the Wall | Yale University Art Gallery

1918

Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: without mounting: 51 3/4 × 12 in. (131.4 × 30.5 cm)
with mounting: 81 3/4 × 16 1/2 in. (207.6 × 41.9 cm)
with rollers: 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm)
Credit Line: Collection of H. Christopher Luce, B.A. 1972
Accession Number: 2020.33.18
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Taishō Era (1868–1926)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

Frederick Baekland, New York; purchased by H. Christopher Luce, January 1980; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2019

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre), hanging scrolls

Subject

Buddhism Zen monks

Inscriptions

面壁の　祖師の姿盤（は）　山城能（の）　八幡野者（は）たの　宇里可茄子比乎（を？）\r\nmenpeki no/ soshi no sugata wa/ Yamashiro no/ Yahata no hata no/ uri ka nasubi wo\r\nThe seated figure of the Master facing the wall reminds us of a squash or an eggplant at the edge of the Yawata Field in Yamashiro (southern Kyoto prefectiure)

Signed

"Inscribed by Nantenbō at the age seventy-nine" 七十九翁南天棒　題　
Seals after the signature: "Hakugai kutsu"　白崖窟; "Tōshū"　鄧州
Opening seal (kanbō-in) at upper right: "Nantenbō"　南天棒

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