Portrait of Zen Master Gudō Toshoku (Translation)
愚堂東寔大圓寶鑑國師像 江戸時代 自賛 酒井氏繪 絹本着色 (Primary Title)
Portrait of Zen Master Gudo Toshoku (Alternate Title)
Saka Uuinobu, Japanese, 1577-1661 (Artist)
Gudō Toshoku 愚堂東寔, Japanese, 1577-1661 (Calligrapher)
Sakai-shi 酒井氏, Japanese, ca. 1620 - 1670 (Painter)
Gudō Toshoku, a leading Zen priest of the early Edo period, joined a Buddhist monastery at the age of thirteen. He served three terms as the abbot at Myoshinji, a Rinzai-School temple in Kyoto. Gudō is portrayed here wearing a Buddhist mantle (kesa), holding a Zen staff, and sitting on a chair covered with an elaborate blanket. Drawn by a patron, this portrait bears an inscription signed and dated by Gudō in the last year of his life. After his death in 1661, he received the posthumous title of Daien Hokan Kokushi, the highest honor of a religious master.
Rinzai Zen Buddhism 臨済宗
Edo period (1615-1868)
愚堂 Gudo
Gudo's seal, illegible
是魔是佛，倒退三千。咦。 咄々，萬箭離弦。 酒井氏信士畫予幻質持來，仍賦一偈報之。萬治庚子林鐘[六月]吉辰, 前政法山愚堂老納。
Special Oriental Art Purchase Fund
On view G224, Japanese, Case 18 5/23/2013 - 5/6/2015
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC
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