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品名（中）	Tenjin前往中国
品名（英）	Tenjin Traveling to China
入馆年号	2019年，2019.420.5
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Tōsai【1467 至 1499】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1467 - 公元 1499
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 37 5/16 × 14 3/8 英寸 (94.8 × 36.5 厘米) 整体 with mounting: 73 7/16 × 23 1/16 英寸 (186.5 × 58.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	政治家诗人杉原美智赞（845–903）在这里被称为天金，他在流放中不幸去世，愤怒的精神给京都的朝廷带来灾难，成为了一个被神化的人。在他被神化后，米奇扎内被尊为农业之神和被诬告者的赞助人。他经常出现在这幅画中的一个伪装是"TotōTenjin"，即前往中国拜访禅宗大师的Tenjin。在这种形式中，他穿着禅宗牧师的衣服，戴着半透明的纱帽，肩上挎着一个袋子。一只胳膊下夹着一枝盛开的李子，据说他很喜欢这种花，经常与之联系在一起。随着禅宗在中世纪日本的发展和扩张，作为将14世纪左右从中国传入日本的禅宗融入日本宗教环境的运动的一部分，TotōTenjin形象变得流行起来 Tōsai是室町时期的一位画家，除了活跃在15世纪后半叶之外，人们对他知之甚少。然而，这幅挂轴作为天神这种特殊伪装的早期绘画实例是很重要的。
介绍（英）	The statesman-poet Sugawara Michizane (845–903) is shown here as Tenjin, the deified being he became in the wake of his unjust death in exile and the calamities his angry spirit inflicted upon the imperial court in Kyoto. After his deification, Michizane was revered as a god of agriculture and patron of the falsely accused. One guise in which he was often represented—and in which he appears in this painting—is that of “Totō Tenjin,” or Tenjin on his way to China to visit a Chan (Zen) Buddhist master. In this form he wears the garment of a Zen priest and a semi-transparent gauze hood, with a bag slung over his shoulder. Clutched beneath one arm is a branch of blossoming plum, the flower he is said to have loved and with which he is often associated. With the growth and expansion of Zen Buddhism in medieval Japan, the Totō Tenjin image became popular as part of the movement to accommodate Zen—imported from China around the 14th century—into Japan’s religious environment. Tōsai was a Muromachi-period painter about whom little is known, other than that he was active in the latter part of the fifteenth century. However, this hanging scroll is important as an early example of paintings of this specific guise of the deity Tenjin.