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kaga. The temple also owns self-portraits When Linji was planting pine trees [his busho), and therefore was an official of the
of three successive generations of the Na- teacher] Huangbo asked him, You plant so lower junior rank. As to his artistic activi-
gao warrior-artists, Kagenaga, Norinaga, many pine trees deep in the mountains, but ties, the seventeenth-century source Hon-
and Norinaga's son Masanaga (1527-1569). what are they for? [Lin-];z replied, First, for chô gashi says that he followed Shübun
Later in his life, Masanaga adopted his the scenery of the temple gate; second, as a and Sesshü, and that he studied Song
grandfather's name Kagenaga, thus often road sign for those who will come here in painting and used its ideas. About the
causing confusion between the two. This the future. When finished speaking [Linji] style of Dôan the same source says that his
landscape painting by Kagenaga, before it dug at the ground three times with the hoe brushwork is rough and abbreviated. From
came into the possession of the present he was carrying on his shoulder, and drew a various scattered references, we know that
owner, was also at Chórinji. YS deep sigh. he actively patronized Buddhism. He con-
tributed funds to the restoration of the
The iconographie attributes of this
94 Patriarch Rinzai (c: Linji) planting a figure ordinarily would identify him as the Great Buddha of Tôdaiji at Nara shortly
pine tree Fifth Zen Patriarch Hongren (601-675) after 1567, and he donated a lantern to the
Yamada Dôan (d. c. 1573) who is said to have been a pine planter at Kasuga Shrine, also in Nara.
hanging scroll; ink and color on paper Potou before being chosen Patriarch. It is A number of fine paintings stamped
81.2 x 34.0(32 x 133/8) difficult to say whether Genyô misinter- with a rectangular seal identical to the one
Muromachi period, mid-loth century preted the painting or whether Dôan in- on this painting are now accepted as works
Tokyo University of Arts tended it to be Linji. The problem of by Dôan. They are Hotel (C: Budai) in the
Cleveland Museum, Shdki (C: Zongkui) in
identifying the figure exemplifies how the
An old man clad in ragged cassocks, his identifying characteristics of one iconic Kenchôji, Kamakura, and Eggplants and
left shoulder exposed, carries over his right figure were often applied to another. melons, a pair of hanging scrolls in the
shoulder a hoe with a young pine sapling Although many questions remain collection of the Museum of Fine Arts,
tied to its handle. The pale outer garment, about the identity of Yamada Dôan, it is Boston. YS
which identifies the figure as a Buddhist, certain that he was a warrior-painter of the
is punctured by two gaping holes, indica- sixteenth century. Three different paint- 95 White hawk
ting his indifference to external appear- ers with the name Dôan are known in the Toki Tomikage (Fukei; fl. mid-i6th
ance. He is white-haired and bearded, with Yamada family. Extant works purported to century)
a facial expression that conveys something be by Dôan carry different kinds of seals, hanging scroll; ink on paper
of his otherworldliness, not unlike that of including the rectangular relief stamped 100.7 x 49.5 (397/8 x 19^2)
an aged and ascetic Lohan, a follower of on this painting. Although no definitive bi- Muromachi period, mid i6th century
the Buddha Sakyamuni. The artist's rec- ography of the artist has been established, Fujii Akira Collection, Tokyo
tangular relief seal, Yamadashi Ddan our Dôan is widely identified as Dôan I, or Important Art Object
(Dôan of the Yamada family), is stamped at Yamada Junchi [or Toshitomo], whose
the lower left. A five-line inscription by a probable death date was c. 1573. He was A noble white hawk, its sharp claws firmly
certain as yet unidentified Genyô, whose ruler of Iwakake Castle in Yamada city, grasping a plum branch, is silhouetted
circular seal is stamped at the end of the Yamato Province (in present-day Nara Pre- against a wintry sky. Its deadly bill closed,
last line, incompletely quotes a passage fecture). He held a second-level position the bird of prey casts an alert gaze to the
from the famous collected sayings of the (taiho) in the department of finance (min- left. White plum blossoms bud and bloom
Zen patriarch Linji Yixuan (d. 867): on the branch. The stately shape of the

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