The Burke Collection
Shide (拾得圖軸)
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950-1

Artist

attributed to Yintuoluo

(因陀羅; full name Fanyin Tuoluo [梵因陀羅]; fl. late 13th–first half of 14th century)

Catalogue information

Yuan dynasty, late 13th century

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

87.5 x 31.2 cm (34 1/2 x 12 1/4 in.)

Donated to the Yale University Art Gallery by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Masaki Naohiko, Tokyo, 1938

Literature

Harada Kinjirō 1938, p. 117.
Harada Kinjirō
1938
Nihon genzai Shina meiga mokuroku (Catalogue of Chinese masterpiece paintings in Japan). Tokyo: Ōtsuka Kōgeisha.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 950 in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D950-1
D950-1
D950-2

Seal

Perpetual state of Samadhi [Sanmei yongshou, 三昧永受] (square, intaglio)

Text

[attributed to Yuji Zhihui (愚極智慧; ca. 1215–1300)]

Clapping hands he comes, opening wide his smiling mouth. / Reciting verses incompletely and composing poems without rhymes, / he abandons [worldly concerns] and works with a bamboo broom. / In front of Five Peaks, behind Twin Torrents, / in the lion’s cave, there is no other animal.

Signature

Yuji of Jingci [Monastery] eulogizes (Jingci Yuji zan 淨慈愚極賛)

Seals

Yuji [愚極] (square, relief); Foxin [佛心] (square, relief)