Dogapsasumiwangsa Temple Portrait

This is a portrait of Royal Preceptor Sumi, a monk of the reign of King Sejo of Joseon. Sumi was King Sejo's royal preceptor and the monk who greatly rebuilt Dogapsa Temple in the mid-fifteenth century; he became head of the Seon school's governing office at the time and revived a Buddhism that had fallen into decline. The portrait shows him seated cross-legged on a chair, turned slightly to the left, holding a bulsu (a whisk-like Buddhist ceremonial implement); at the upper right of the painting is written the title "Portrait of Royal Preceptor Sumi". It is said to have been made in 1633, the eleventh year of King Injo, the same year in which his memorial stele was erected. The technique used to depict the figure and the shading of the robes match those of the accompanying Portrait of State Preceptor Doseon (a Jeollanam-do Tangible Cultural Heritage item), and the pattern of the floral straw mat and other features are likewise similar, suggesting that it was re-copied together with the portrait of Doseon in the early nineteenth century. Painted in deep colours on silk, using pigments typical of Buddhist paintings of the late Joseon period, it faithfully follows the conventions of Buddhist painting.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산