Pan Lang (Han Rō), mid-1500s. Shikibu Terutada (Japanese, active mid-1500s). Fan-shaped painting mounted as hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper; painting: 25 x 50 cm (9 13/16 x 19 11/16 in.); mounted: 99.4 x 65.5 cm (39 1/8 x 25 13/16 in.). These three fan-shaped paintings, now mounted as individual hanging scrolls, were once part of a set of 20 mounted on a folding screen. They portray the Chinese subjects, from left to right, of the scholar-official Pan Lang, Hanshan reciting his poetry to Shide, and a duck in flight above reeds. Pan Lang grew so fond of the mountain in his place of exile that when he was ordered back to the capital, he rode backward on his donkey so he could see it until it receded into the distance. Hanshan and Shide worked in the kitchen of a Zen monastery, but were actually reincarnations of the bodhisattvas Manjushri and Samantabhadra. The combination of a mandarin duck and reeds may have signified a level of attainment in Chinese civil service exams. All thr