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G111"KANZAN JITTOKU"18. JahrhundertUnkoku-ha/ -Schule*Kanzan (Hanshan):Kanzan / Hanshan (9th century) was a mythologicalfigure associated with a collection of poems from theChinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and Zen tradition.He is honored as a Bodhisattva -figure in Zenmythologyin Japanese and Chinese paintingstogether with his sidekick Shide and with Fenggan.*Jittoku (Shide):Jittoku / Shide (9th century) was a minor TangDynasty Chinese Buddhist poet in Guoqing Temple,in the Tiantai Mountain range on the East China Seacoast; roughly contemporary with Hanshan andFenggan, but younger than either. He was closefriends with both and together they formed the"Tiantai Trio". Shide lived as a lay monk, and workedmost of his life in the kitchen of Guoqing Temple.An apocryphal story relates how Shide received hisname: Once, Fenggan was travelling betweenGuoqing Temple and the village of Tiantai, when atthe redstone rock ridge called 'Red Wall' he heardsome crying. He investigated, and found a ten-yearold boy who had been abandoned by his parents;and picked him up and took him back to the temple,where the monks would raise him.Unkoku is a school of Japanese painting