Bring your favorites together in your free personal gallery.
Your galleryHanshan and Shide
Look first
- What catches your attention?
- Where does your eye go next?
- What would you ask about this work?
Show me
Notice how Taiga turns both men into near circles: Hanshan peers over his open scroll at the top, while Shide, seen from behind, listens below.
Hanshan and Shide, known in Japan as Kanzan and Jittoku, are linked with Chan, or Zen, Buddhism and lived in the 700s and early 800s on China’s Mount Tiantai. Hanshan, or Cold Mountain, was a poet-monk; his friend Shide, the Foundling, kept a temple. Taiga shows Hanshan reading aloud from a scroll of his poems while Shide listens, his broom behind him.
hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper · Image: 121.5 x 41 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
Look again
What do you notice now?
Try a quick sketch
Take a minute to sketch on any paper. No upload needed.
What did you draw first? What did you leave out?
Details and source
- Museum title
- Hanshan and Shide
- Artist
- Ike Taiga (Japanese, 1723–1776)
- Date
- c. 1745–76
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 121.5 x 41 cm (47 13/16 x 16 1/8 in.); Overall: 213.4 x 44.2 cm (84 x 17 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1723–1776
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.