one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three year A painting of Sakai Bao in the Edo era Hanging axle Colored silk and gold writing
Size: eighty-five point four × 35.6 cm Overall dimensions: 173.4 × 40.3 cm
Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Longri Compilation
Welcome the day when Guanyin Bodhisattva became a Taoist
On the top of the picture is written in gold the verse in the 25th grade of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Purmon
Legend: Wen Zheng Guiwei( one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three ) Yuhua Nunnery writes with a towel
Sakai Baoyi( 1761-1828 ), a painter in the late Edo era, Hao Yucun, whose real names are Zhongyin, Youming Shanci, and commonly known as "Yaoba", "Huizhen", "Yingcun", "Yuhua Temple", "Tingbaizi", etc. He is a versatile artist. Together with Zongda and Guanglin, he is called Zongda Guanglin Sect's three generations of masters. one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven year thirty-seven At the age of, he became a monk with the Dharma Master Wen Ru of the West Beng Wish Temple. His Dharma name was "Wen Quan Hui Zhen in the waiting hall", and he was granted the rank of monk in the big monk capital (the eighth rank among the fifteen rank monks in Japan).