Tenjin Traveling to China
1787
89.0 x 33.0 cm
This painting depicts the statesman-poet-scholar Sugawara Michizane (845–903) as Tenjin, the deified being he became following his unjust death in exile, and the calamities his angry spirit inflicted upon the imperial court in Kyoto. After his deification, Michizane was revered as a god of agriculture and patron of the falsely accused. One guise in which he is often represented is that of “Totō Tenjin,” or Tenjin on his way to China to visit a Zen Buddhist master. Rosetsu’s vision of Totō Tenjin reflects the artist’s early style, when he was strongly influenced by the deliberate, naturalistic mode of his master, Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795), founder of the Maruyama school.
O ovom umetničkom delu
- Naslov: Tenjin Traveling to China
- Umetnik: Nagasawa Rosetsu
- Godina: 1787
- Prvobitne dimenzije: 89.0 x 33.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Status autorskih prava: Javno vlasništvo
- Dominantna boja: Driftwood
- Boja (ton): Yellow-Green Range