The Second Coming of the Fifth Patriarch

c. mid-1300s

Yintuoluo

Yintuoluo (Chinese, c. 1285-c. 1355)

Chinese Art

The Second Coming of the Fifth Patriarch, c. mid-1300s. Yintuoluo (Chinese, c. 1285-c. 1355). Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 32.7 x 44.6 cm (12 7/8 x 17 9/16 in.); overall: 245 x 62 cm (96 7/16 x 24 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1967.211

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Yintuoluo
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll, ink on paper
Medium: section, handscroll, mounted, hanging, scroll, ink, paper
Dimensions: Image: 32.7 x 44.6 cm (12 7/8 x 17 9/16 in.); Overall: 245 x 62 cm (96 7/16 x 24 7/16 in.)
Inscribed: Inscription: [印] 人言洞裡桃花源，未必人間有此枝 Translation: Artist's seal: People allude to the Grotto of the Peach Blossoms; it is not likely that such a flowering branch would exist in our world. Remark: Yintuoluo's seal has been trimmed away with only a trace surviving. Wai-kam Ho, CMA's Senior Research Curator of Oriental and Chinese Art from 1959-1983, believed that this was the same seal that has shown up on a number of surviving fragments. Inscription: 此子無爺只有娘，禪師莫問幾時生。青松未老黃梅飄，兩世都如夢一場。 [印] 楚石 Translation: 1 inscription and 1 additional seal of Chushi Fanqi 楚石梵琦 (1296-1370). Poem: This child has no father, only a mother./ You, the Chan master, don’t need to ask when he was born./ The green pine is not yet old and the rain comes during yellow plum season./ Twice reincarnated, all just seems to be but a dream. [seal] Chu shi
Departments: Chinese Art
Accession Number: 1967.211
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Exhibitions: Year in Review: 1968, The Colors of Ink, Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting, Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection, <em>Daibi: 50th anniversary of Osaka Art and Music Club, 70th anniversary of the Osaka Shosei Association</em>. Osaka Art Club, Osaka, Japan (1960).
Rights Statement: CC0