Object Details
Artist
Nantembo, Nakahara
Medium
Hanging scroll: ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 44 7/8 × 10 13/16 inches (114 × 27.5 cm)
Overall/Frame: 74 3/4 × 11 5/8 inches (189.9 × 29.5 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Baekeland
Object
Number
91.101.006
A leading monk-artist of the early 20th century, Nantembo took up painting and calligraphy rather la(…)
A leading monk-artist of the early 20th century, Nantembo took up painting and calligraphy rather late in life. From 1902, when his service as abbot of Bairin-ji and Kaisei-ji temples began, he practiced Zen expression by means of the brush. Here the artist depicts a scarecrow constructed of a bamboo pole with leaves and a hat, standing before a barbed wire structure in the form of a bow and arrow. The inscription reads:”Seventy-eight-year-old Nantembo entering his eighties. The scarecrow serves in shade or sunshine.”
