JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

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ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)
Enmei Jizo (Life-Prolonging Jizo) and Attendants
Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century
Hanging scroll painted in ink, color and gold on silk with Jizo seated
on a rocky outcropping in waves accompanied by Shozen, the
administrator of good on the right, and Shoaku, the administrator of
evil on the left
With an unassociated wood storage box
34 3/16 x 15 15/16in (86.8 x 40.5cm)
$7,000 - 9,000
For a similar example of Enmei Jizo in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
see https://collections.artsmia.org/art/118151/life-prolonging-jizobodhisattva-unknown-japanese
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ANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)
A True Portrait of High Priest Chinzei Shoko
Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century
The painting in ink and colors on paper depicting an elderly man with
a shaved head holding a Buddhist rosary and wearing a priest’s robes
with a kesa garment hanging from his left shoulder while seated on
a dais, to his right three rolled-up sutra scrolls on top of a side table;
above his head a calligraphy of twenty characters describing his
achievements; of hanging scroll format now mounted in a frame
27 7/8 x 14in (70.8 x 35.6cm)
$2,000 - 3,000
The Japanese monk Bencho (1162-1238) was also known as Shoko
Shonin (High Priest Shoko), and was the second patriarch, after
Honen, of the main Chinzei branch of the Jodo-shu sect of Japanese
Buddhism.
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