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The Manichaean Painting of the Buddha Jesus (Chinese: 夷數佛幀; pinyin: Yí shù fó zhēn; Wade–Giles: I 2-shu 4 fo 2-chên 1; Japanese: キリスト聖像 [1]; rōmaji: Kirisuto Sei-zō; lit. 'Sacred Image of Christ'), is a Chinese Southern Song dynasty silk hanging scroll preserved at the Seiunji Temple in Kōshū, Yamanashi, Japan.
Hanging scrolls provide a vertical format to display art on walls. [3] [6] They are one of the most common types of scrolls for Chinese painting and calligraphy. [10] They are made in many different sizes and proportions. [5] Horizontal hanging scrolls are also a common form. [10] Hanging scrolls are different from the handscrolls.
Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) [a] [1] is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, [2] hunting, fishing, domestication, [3] and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2900 BC [4] or 2000 BC.
After the introduction of hanging scrolls into Manichaean artistic production by the 10th century, it started to integrate a number of individual canonical images in one composite display. "The result was the emergence of modified canonical images. The Diagram of the Universe is an example of such a modified image." [6]
Chinese Manichaeism, also known as Monijiao (Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móníjiào; Wade–Giles: Mo 2-ni 2 Chiao 4; lit. 'religion of Moni') or Mingjiao (Chinese: 明教; pinyin: Míngjiào; Wade–Giles: Ming 2-Chiao 4; lit. 'religion of light or 'bright religion'), is the form of Manichaeism transmitted to and currently practiced in China.
Sermon on Mani's Teaching of Salvation (Chinese: 冥王聖幀; lit. 'Sacred Scroll of the King of the Underworld') is a Yuan dynasty silk hanging scroll, measuring 142 × 59 centimetres and dating from the 13th century, with didactic themes: a multi-scenic narrative that depicts Mani's Teachings about the Salvation combines a sermon subscene with the depictions of soteriological teaching in ...
The calligrapher is thought to be the same on the five scrolls as on the hell scroll and the demon of punishment, [1] which were produced at roughly the same time. [2] They are thought to have originally been a single handscroll, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] known as the "second edition of the Masuda family hell scroll", that was stored in the Rengeō-in Temple ...
Shussan Shaka, Nambokucho Period (Japanese), 14th century, hanging scroll, ink on silk, 72.7 x 36.1 cm, Choraku-ji Collection, Japan. Although the artist of the Choraku-ji Shussan Shaka is unknown, the style of the painting leads scholars to infer that the creator of this work was a Zen priest rather than a trained painter.