Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan

Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Revered in Chan (Zen) Buddhism, the monk-poet Hanshan (Kanzan) stands in a windswept landscape and holds a brush in his upraised right hand. The moralizing poem at the upper left, which stresses proper behavior, is found in ceramics but does not appear to have been preserved elsewhere.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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