{"id":576,"date":"2022-10-11T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T02:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T02:09:47","slug":"painting-of-arhat-with-an-inscription-by-ingen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Painting of Arhat with an inscription by Ingen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Itsunen Sh\u014dy\u016b<br>Early Edo period, 17th century<br>Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Itsunen Shoyu (1601\u20131668) is famous as the Buddhist monk and painter who helped to establish Zen Buddhism in Japan. This painting depicts an arhat (a Buddhist who has reached the stage of enlightenment) burning incense. It uses the intense primary colours characteristic of \u014cbaku Zen portrait painting. The contrast between the carefully-drawn face and the bold yellow and blue of the garments makes a strong impression on the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The inscription at the top was written in 1672 by Ingen Ry\u016bki, a Chinese poet, calligrapher and monk, and the founder of the \u014cbaku school of Zen Buddhism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Itsunen Sh\u014dy\u016bEarly Edo period, 17th centuryDonated by the Homma family Itsunen Shoyu (1601\u20131668) is famous &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}