Hoamhwa Statue Portrait

This portrait shows Monk Hoam as a full-length seated figure in a chair, shown in eight-tenths left profile. He sits sideways in a chair with a backrest, his left hand grasping a monk's staff (jujangja) and his right hand resting lightly on the armrest. The monastic robe draped over the chair is green, its edges decorated with a lotus-scroll design. On the left side of the painting is a hwaje — an inscription identifying the subject — written in black ink on a vermilion ground, reading 海東佛日國一大禪師虎巖和上之眞 ("Portrait of the Great Seon Master Hoam, Foremost Preceptor of the Buddha-Sun Land East of the Sea"). An ink inscription on the reverse confirms that the painting was restored in 1859, the tenth year of King Cheoljong, by the painter-monk Uiundang Jau. The painting measures 78.9 cm in width and 120.3 cm in height.

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Where it is

Region

Yangsan, Gyeongnam

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산