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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.11.1-3
Title
Landscape Illustrations and Fragmentary Text from Chapter Thirteen of the Imperial Commentary on the Buddhist Canon (Tripitaka) Commissioned by Emperor Taizong (r. 976-997)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Yuzhi mizangquan
Classification
Prints
Work Type
handscroll
Date
1108
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Song dynasty, Northern Song period, 960-1127
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204284

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Three woodblock-printed handscrolls; ink on paper

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
A 10-041 (Suzuki Kei)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Louise H. Daly, Anonymous and Alpheus Hyatt Funds
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.11.1-3
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Three handscrolls comprising four Northern-Song (906-1279) woodblock printed landscapes mounted as illustrations within fourteen leaves of text from Chapter Thirteen of the Imperial Commentary of the Chinese Tripitaka (Yuzhi mizangquan).

The three handscrolls are as follows:
1962.11.1: Leaves 2 (fragmentary), 3, 4, 5, and landscape illustration 1
1962.11.2.A-B: Leaves 6-10, and landscape illustrations 2 and 3
1962.11.3: Leaves 11-15, and landscape illustration 4

At the end of leaf 15 is a cartouche giving the date of printing as Daguan 2nd year (1108), during the reign of Emperor Huizong.

Publication History

  • Max Loehr, Chinese Art: Symbols and Images, exh. cat., Jewett Arts Center (Wellesley, 1967), pp. 38-39, no. 20
  • Max Loehr, Chinese Landscape Woodcuts from an Imperial Commentary to the Tenth-Century Printed Edition of the Buddhist Canon, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1968), n.p., Plate 1-17
  • Suzuki Kei, Chugoku kaiga sogo zuroku, Amerika Kanada hen (Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings, Volume 1: American and Canadian Collections), University of Tokyo Press (Tokyo, Japan, 1982), pp. I-58 and I-432, no. A 10-041
  • Natasha Heller, Illusory Abiding: The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben, Harvard University Asia Center (Cambridge and London, 2014), p. 367, fig. 6

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