Tsuba with Popular Zen Hermits Kanzan and Jittoku

19th century (Edo period)

5.8 cm 6.4 cm 0.4 cm

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Kanzan (Ch. Hanshan [Hanshan]) and Jittoku (Ch. Shide [Shih Te]) are a pair of Zen eccentrics who lived at a monastery on Mt. Tendai in China during the Tang [T'ang] period (618-907). They spoke to each other in a nonsense language that no one else understood. Kanzan is always...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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