Property of various ownersANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)A True Portrait of High Priest Chinzei Shoko Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century The painting in ink and colors on paper depicting an elderly man with a shaved head holding a Buddhist rosary and wearing a priest's robes with a kesa garment hanging from his left shoulder while seated on a dais, to his right three rolled-up sutra scrolls on top of a side table; above his head a calligraphy of twenty characters describing his achievements; of hanging scroll format now mounted in a frame 27 7/8 x 14in (70.8 x 35.6cm)FootnotesThe Japanese monk Bencho (1162-1238) was also known as Shoko Shonin (High Priest Shoko), and was the second patriarch, after Honen, of the main Chinzei branch of the Jodo-shu sect of Japanese Buddhism.
Property of various ownersANONYMOUS (16TH CENTURY)A True Portrait of High Priest Chinzei Shoko Muromachi period (1333-1573), 16th century The painting in ink and colors on paper depicting an elderly man with a shaved head holding a Buddhist rosary and wearing a priest's robes with a kesa garment hanging from his left shoulder while seated on a dais, to his right three rolled-up sutra scrolls on top of a side table; above his head a calligraphy of twenty characters describing his achievements; of hanging scroll format now mounted in a frame 27 7/8 x 14in (70.8 x 35.6cm)FootnotesThe Japanese monk Bencho (1162-1238) was also known as Shoko Shonin (High Priest Shoko), and was the second patriarch, after Honen, of the main Chinzei branch of the Jodo-shu sect of Japanese Buddhism.
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