White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku

Unidentified artist

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 224

These three devotional paintings were probably reconstituted as a triptych in late medieval times. The bodhisattva of infinite compassion, Kannon (Chinese: Guanyin), is flanked by Kanzan and Jittoku (Chinese: Hanshan and Shide), quasi-historical eccentrics of the eighth century from Chan legend. Kanzan and Jittoku appear somewhat disheveled and lack their usual attributes: a scroll of paper for the former and a straw broom for the latter. Kanzan is depicted with his mouth open, as if laughing with delight at the moon in the sky above, while his companion, Jittoku, looks down in quiet admiration of the moon’s reflection in the water.

White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan

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White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan
White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan
White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan
White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan
White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan
White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan
White-Robed Kannon, Kanzan, and Jittoku, Unidentified artist , 14th century, Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on silk;, Japan

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