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Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy
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Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy

late 1300s–1400s · Fragment of a handscroll remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper

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Handscrolls depicting eminent poets and their poems is a classic Japanese painting genre. This fragment is the end of a scroll, the beginning of which survives in the Tokyo National Museum. It has a preface stating it is based on a selection of 36 monks paired with their waka (31-syllable poems) made by Eikai (1278–1347) from Kashūji temple in the year of his death. These two portraits are of Jōkei (1155–1212) and Myōe (1173–1232), to the right and left, respectively.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineThirty-Six Poetic Immortals of the Buddhist Clergy (釈教三十六歌仙絵巻断簡), late 1300s–1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Fragment of a handscroll remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper; painting: 29.1 x 44.5 cm (11 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.); mounted: 113.2 x 56.6 cm (44 9/16 x 22 5/16 in.); with knobs: 113.2 x 61.2 cm (44 9/16 x 24 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1985.88
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