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Created page with "*''Destroyed: 1820'' *''Japanese'': 五百羅漢寺 ''(gohyaku rakan ji)'' Gohyaku Rakan-ji (lit. "Temple of 500 Arhats") was a Buddhist temple in Edo, notable fo..."
*''Destroyed: [[1820]]''
*''Japanese'': 五百羅漢寺 ''(gohyaku rakan ji)''
Gohyaku Rakan-ji (lit. "Temple of 500 [[Arhat]]s") was a Buddhist temple in [[Edo]], notable for housing, from [[1726]] onwards, a pair of paintings by Willem Hendrik van Royen, donated to the temple by Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], who had received them as a gift from the [[Dutch East India Company]]. These were perhaps the only European paintings anywhere in Edo available to be viewed by the general public.
The temple was destroyed in a typhoon in [[1820]], and the paintings lost. Two reproductions are known, however: one by [[Tani Buncho|Tani Bunchô]], in the form of a hanging scroll, and one as a pair of illustrations by [[Fujiwara Morihiro]] in a [[1729]] woodblock-printed book by [[Yamashita Sekichu|Yamashita Sekichû]], entitled "Pictures of One Hundred [[bird and flower painting|Bird and Flower [Paintings]]]" (''Gazu hyakkachô''). From these reproductions, we can see that the two works included an elaborate still-life featuring numerous different flowers piled high in and around a tall vase or urn, and, in the other work, a peacock and several other birds, with a pine tree in the background.
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 317-319.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Japanese'': 五百羅漢寺 ''(gohyaku rakan ji)''
Gohyaku Rakan-ji (lit. "Temple of 500 [[Arhat]]s") was a Buddhist temple in [[Edo]], notable for housing, from [[1726]] onwards, a pair of paintings by Willem Hendrik van Royen, donated to the temple by Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], who had received them as a gift from the [[Dutch East India Company]]. These were perhaps the only European paintings anywhere in Edo available to be viewed by the general public.
The temple was destroyed in a typhoon in [[1820]], and the paintings lost. Two reproductions are known, however: one by [[Tani Buncho|Tani Bunchô]], in the form of a hanging scroll, and one as a pair of illustrations by [[Fujiwara Morihiro]] in a [[1729]] woodblock-printed book by [[Yamashita Sekichu|Yamashita Sekichû]], entitled "Pictures of One Hundred [[bird and flower painting|Bird and Flower [Paintings]]]" (''Gazu hyakkachô''). From these reproductions, we can see that the two works included an elaborate still-life featuring numerous different flowers piled high in and around a tall vase or urn, and, in the other work, a peacock and several other birds, with a pine tree in the background.
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==References==
*Timon Screech, ''Obtaining Images'', University of Hawaii Press (2012), 317-319.
[[Category:Temples]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]