Arhat (Ashita Sonja - Ajita) (one of a set of sixteen)

Object Details

• Artist

  Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360)

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Masters of Mercy: Buddha's Amazing Disciples (March 10 to July 8, 2012)

  Religious Art of Japan (December 18, 2002 to January 4, 2015)

  Buddhist Art (May 9, 1993 to August 9, 2011)

  Japanese Art (March 12, 1982 to November 3, 1986)

  Japanese Art (February 15, 1981 to March 3, 1981)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Ryozen, Ajita

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Men, Japanese Art, Nanbokucho period (1333 - 1392), Kakemono

• Culture

  Buddhists, Arhats, Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings