Arhat (Panthaka)

Object Details

• Artist

  Ryozen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360)

• Label

  1. See folder 1904.295.

  2. See folder 1904.295.

  3. See folder 1904.295.

  4. See folder 1904.295.

  5. Reproduced: Pacific Era, November 1907, opposite page 57.

  6. See folder 1904.295, paragraph 5.

  7. See folder 1904.295, paragraph 6.

  8. (H.E. Buckman, 1963) The following is incorporated from the Envelope File, which has now been destroyed: The Lohan, Chu-t'o-pan-t'o-chia (Sanskrit, Chullapanthaka; Japanese, Chiudahantaka). See also Folder Sheet 1904.295, Note 7, and letter mounted on pages 6 and 7.

  9. See folder 1904.295, paragraph 8.

  10. (H.P. Stern, 1967) Attributed to Ryozen.

  11. (A. Yonemura, 1978) When the painting was attributed to Ryozen, the attribution should have been changed from Namboku-Cho--Ashikaga period, A.D. late 14th century, Buddhist school, to Namboku Cho period, mid 14th century, Buddhist school, Ryozen, attr. to.

  12. See folder 1904.295.

• 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)

  Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

  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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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Ryozen

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Japanese Art, Caves, Nanbokucho period (1333 - 1392), Chuda-Panthaka

• Culture

  Buddhists, Arhats, Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings