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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARTIN
COHEN
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ANONYMOUS
Bato Kannon
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Ink, color, and gold on paper depicting Bato Kannon
(Avalokitesvara) and his attendants surrounded by four wrathful
deities and hiten (apsara), mounted on a silk ground, laid down
and framed
10 1/4 x 9 5/8in (26 x 24.4cm), image only; 28 1/2 x 17 1/4in
(72.4 x 43.8cm) overall
$2,500 - 3,500

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PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS
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HAKUIN EKAKU (1686-1769)
Willow Kannon
Edo period (1615-1868), mid-18th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on paper in silk mounts,
depicting the bodhisattva Kannon clothed in white robes
with an elaborate headdress seated on a pile of leaves
floating on clouds, with downcast eyes and wearing her
typical compassionate smile, both hands holding aloft a bowl
containing a willow branch, the kohai (halo) behind her head
inscribed Muryo, Fukujukai, Shigenjijusho (A limitless ocean
of good fortune and longevity, her kindly eyes view the whole
of creation), the character ju (long life) written larger than the
others, sealed Kokan’i, Hakuin no in, and Ekaku
Overall 88 x 32 1/4in (223 x 82cm); image 71 x 23in (180 x
58cm)
$8,000 - 12,000

For other depictions by Hakuin of Kannon with similar
iconography, inscriptions, and attributes, compare a hanging
scroll sold at Bonhams, London, November 7, 2019, lot 152,
and Audrey Yoshiko Seo and Stephen Addiss, The Sound of
One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin,
Boston, Shambhala Publications, 2010, pl. 2.7 and 2.8; the
branch of willow seen to the left of the composition can be
used to ward off disaster or illness, while the bodhisattva’s
white robes and leaf or grass mat—immortalized in a scroll by
Kano Motonobu in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—became
favored attributes during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

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