Jizo Bosatsu Playing a Flute. Artist: Kano Tan'yu (Japanese, 1602-1674). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 38 3/4 in. × 15 in. (98.5 × 38.1 cm)Overall with mounting: 80 1/2 × 21 7/16 in. (204.5 × 54.5 cm)Overall with knobs: 80 1/2 × 23 5/8 in. (204.5 × 60 cm). Date: mid- 17th century.This elegant vision of the bodhisattva Jizo Bosatsu (Sanskrit: Ksitigarbha) playing a flute is a rare and innovative portrayal that may have been created by Kano Tan'yu 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. The few similar paintings known of a flute-playing Jizo are by Tan'yu or his followers. The gentle, boyish figure, dancing, playing a flute, and wearing both the traditional monk's robe and the flowing scarves and jewels of a bodhisattva, combines several aspects of Jizo's traditional iconography. Instead of lotus petals, he wears a huge, overturned lotus leaf upon his head. His monk's staff and

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Jizo Bosatsu Playing a Flute. Artist: Kano Tan'yu (Japanese, 1602-1674). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image: 38 3/4 in. × 15 in. (98.5 × 38.1 cm)Overall with mounting: 80 1/2 × 21 7/16 in. (204.5 × 54.5 cm)Overall with knobs: 80 1/2 × 23 5/8 in. (204.5 × 60 cm). Date: mid- 17th century.This elegant vision of the bodhisattva Jizo Bosatsu (Sanskrit: Ksitigarbha) playing a flute is a rare and innovative portrayal that may have been created by Kano Tan'yu 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. The few similar paintings known of a flute-playing Jizo are by Tan'yu or his followers. The gentle, boyish figure, dancing, playing a flute, and wearing both the traditional monk's robe and the flowing scarves and jewels of a bodhisattva, combines several aspects of Jizo's traditional iconography. Instead of lotus petals, he wears a huge, overturned lotus leaf upon his head. His monk's staff and

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