About This Artwork

Artist unknown
Japanese

Kobo Daishi (Kukai) as a Boy (Chigo Daishi), 15th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
86.7 x 48.9 cm (34 1/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, 1959.552

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Mayuyama Junkichi. Japanese Art in the West. Tokyo: Mayuyama and Co., Ltd., 1966, fig. 108 page 93.

Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, 1959.