Hotei / Ogata Kôrin
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- Accession Number
- 1965/1.157
- Title
- Hotei
- Artist
- Ogata Kôrin
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- (Kyoto, 1658 - 1716)
- Medium and Support
- ink and light color on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1700-1716
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Rimpa
- Inscription
- Signed below the figure's left knee: Korin; Seal below the figure's left knee: Kansei.
- Dimensions
- 21.3 cm x 22.5 cm (8 3/8 in. x 8 7/8 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- fan painting
- Physical Description
- The shape of the circle repeats four times in this painting. It appears in the plump body of Hotei, his head, his large white sack, and the overall shape of the fan.
- Subject Matter
- Hotei (known in Chinese as Putai) is the fond nickname for a tenth-century Chinese monk named Qici, who attained legendary status as an exemplar of Zen ideals. Hotei is recognizable by his large belly and his equally enormous alms bag, which he carried everywhere. His very name is a pun: Hotei literally means “cloth sack”—and by extension, “glutton.”
- Hotei became a favorite subject for Zen monk-painters in China and Japan as early as the thirteenth century. Artists delighted in the possibilities for visual punning, drawing both Hotei’s belly and his sack as enormous circles. An empty circle—a perfect geometric shape without beginning or end—is used in Zen as an abstract symbol representing the erasure of opposites, a fundamental Buddhist teaching.
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- fans (costume accessories)
- hanging scrolls
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- zen buddhism
- Secondary Keywords
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- buddhism
- chinese buddhism
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- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
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- geometric concepts
- geometric figures
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 775 x 1189
- File Size
- 58 KB
- Record
- 1965/1.157
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"Hotei; Ogata Kôrin." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1965-sl-1.157/1965_1.157.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.