The Five Hundred Arhats
Lin Tinggui and Zhou Jichang · Colour on silk; sixteen of eighty-two hanging scrolls · Southern Song dynasty, China, 1178–1188 · Daitokuji Temple, Kyoto
Painters in Southern Song Ningbo spent about ten years on a hundred scrolls of arhats; sixteen of Daitokuji’s eighty-two are in the exhibition, though not necessarily all at once.
Exhibition: Daitokuji: A Zen Temple Beyond Compare — Tokyo National Museum · –