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Bamboo

Date1763-1843
Label TextBorn in China, Dapeng Zhengkun, a monk of the Ōbaku sect of Zen, arrived in 1722 in Nagasaki in western Japan, where his name is pronounced Taihō Shōkon. He later lived in Japan’s imperial capital, Kyoto, south of which is located the Ōbaku sect’s monastic headquarters, Manpukuji. Serving two separate tenures as abbot of this temple, he was a prolific painter and especially celebrated for his pictures of bamboo.
Object number71.62
ProvenanceSeattle Chapter of Ikebana International; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1971
Credit LineGift of the Seattle Chapter of Ikebana International
DimensionsOverall (w/ mounting, hanging braid & endknobs)): 84 7/16 × 32 3/8 in. (214.5 × 82.3 cm) Image: 52 11/16 × 23 1/2 in. (133.8 × 59.7 cm) Width (without endknobs): 29 5/16 in. (74.5 cm)
MediumInk on paper
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Japanese
early 16th century
Object number: 91.235.1
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Japanese
early 16th century
Object number: 91.235.2
Photo: Scott Leen
Japanese
late 16th century
Object number: 2023.11.101
Photo: Paul Macapia
early 17th century
Object number: 61.79.1
Photo: Paul Macapia
early 17th century
Object number: 61.79.2
Photo: Spike Mafford
1615-1868
Object number: 34.98
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1955
Object number: 55.166
Photo: Spike Mafford
early 17th century
Object number: 37.56
Bamboo in Wind
early 18th century
Object number: 2001.24
Photo: Scott Leen
Object number: 2023.11.103.a-b
Scholar's Retreat in a Bamboo Grove
ca. 1760-1767
Object number: 74.73