笛吹地蔵図, Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute, Edo period (1615–1868), mid- 17th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 38 3/4 in. × 15 in. (98.5 × 38.1 cm), Paintings, Kano Tan'yū (Japanese, 1602–1672), This elegant vision of the bodhisattva Jizō Bosatsu (Sanskrit: Ksitigarbha) playing a flute is a rare and innovative portrayal that may have been created by Kano Tan’yū himself, who, as head of the Shogun’s painting academy (edokoro), was familiar with most of the ancient paintings that had survived to his day
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