仙子牧师 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	仙子牧师
品名（英）	Priest Xianzi
入馆年号	2019年，2019.420.10
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Unkoku Tōgan【1547 至 1618】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1547 - 公元 1618
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 42 1/2 × 18 11/16 英寸 (108 × 47.4 厘米) 整体 with mounting: 74 3/16 × 25 13/16 英寸 (188.5 × 65.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	一位佛教僧侣的坐姿似乎在凝视他举起一只手抓着的大虾或小龙虾，而另一只手拿着渔网，放在膝盖上。他就是Kensu（中文：弦子），一个半传奇的中国唐朝古怪牧师，他大部分时间都在河岸边徘徊，吃小龙虾和蛤蜊。Kensu据说是在捕虾时获得启蒙的，尽管佛教寺院严格要求他保持素食。Kensu挥舞的虾和他的渔网，以及破烂的衣服和幸福的表情，都是与他特别相关的特质 Tōgan是十六世纪末十七世纪初伟大的水墨大师之一，也是Unkoku学派的创始人。他成熟的作品受到室町时期牧师画家SesshúTōyō;（1420–1506）风格的强烈影响。Tōgan的主题通常取材于禅宗或中国主题，他主要用墨水创作，尽管与莫莫山时期的其他艺术家一样，他有时也会创作金叶背景的丝网画。
介绍（英）	The seated figure of a Buddhist monk appears to be contemplating the large shrimp or crayfish he grasps in one raised hand while his other, holding a fishing net, rests on his knee. He is Kensu (Chinese: Xianzi), a semi-legendary eccentric priest of Tang dynasty China, who spent much of his time wandering along riverbanks, eating crayfish and clams. Kensu allegedly achieved enlightenment while catching a shrimp, in spite of Buddhist monastic strictures to maintain a vegetarian diet. The shrimp brandished by Kensu, and his fishing net, are attributes specifically associated with him, as are the ragged clothes and beatific expression. Tōgan was one of the great ink painting masters of the late sixteenth-early seventeenth century and founder of the Unkoku school. His mature work was strongly influenced by the style of the Muromachi period priest-painter Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506). Tōgan’s subject matter was often drawn from Zen or Chinese themes, and he worked primarily in ink although, like other artists of the Momoyama period, he sometimes created screen paintings with gold leaf backgrounds.