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Hanshan and Shide (Kanzan and Jittoku)

mid-1500s

Shikibu Terutada

(Japanese, active mid-1500s)
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Fan-shaped painting mounted as hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper
Painting: 25 x 49.7 cm (9 13/16 x 19 9/16 in.); Mounted: 124.2 x 68.4 cm (48 7/8 x 26 15/16 in.)
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.592
Location: Not on view

Description

These three fan-shaped paintings, now mounted as individual hanging scrolls, were once part of a set of 20 mounted on a folding screen. They portray the Chinese subjects, from left to right, of the scholar-official Pan Lang, Hanshan reciting his poetry to Shide, and a duck in flight above reeds. Pan Lang grew so fond of the mountain in his place of exile that when he was ordered back to the capital, he rode backward on his donkey so he could see it until it receded into the distance. Hanshan and Shide worked in the kitchen of a Zen monastery, but were actually reincarnations of the bodhisattvas Manjushri and Samantabhadra. The combination of a mandarin duck and reeds may have signified a level of attainment in Chinese civil service exams. All three paintings bear the seal of the Kantobased artist Shikibu Terutada. Shikibu was familiar with Kano school painting, but he also modeled his early style after that of the prominent Kanto-based Kenkō Shōkei (active about 1470–after 1523).
  • Hisamatsu collection
    Inoue collection
    ?–2015
    George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2015–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cunningham, Michael R., Shinʼichi Miyajima, and Yūji Yamashita. Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 54–55
    Vilbar, Sinéad. “Reeds and Geese: A brief tour of George Gund III's bequest of Japanese art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 57, no. 3 (May/June 2017): 8–9. Reproduced: p. 8; Mentioned: pp. 8–9 archive.org
  • Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).
  • {{cite web|title=Hanshan and Shide (Kanzan and Jittoku)|url=false|author=Shikibu Terutada|year=mid-1500s|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.592