Beopsuseonwon Mountain Spirit Painting

This Buddhist painting is a sanshindo, a painting of the mountain spirit, currently enshrined in the Myeongbujeon, the hall housing the ten kings of the underworld, at Beopsuseonwon. It is said to have been moved there from Mangwolsa Temple on Dobongsan Mountain around 1950 by the Venerable Hyegwang, a former abbot of Beopsuseonwon. The painting is a rectangle slightly longer in width, depicting along its left-hand edge, in the jinchae technique using vivid, opaque pigments, the mountain spirit seated beneath a pine tree with a tiger beside him. No inscription recording the date of production or the name of the monk-painter survives, so the exact date and painter are unknown, but on stylistic grounds the work is thought to date from around the late nineteenth century. Although relatively late in date, it is a notable work for the stable composition formed by the pine tree, the mountain spirit and the tiger, for the sense of volume achieved through shading, and for its delicate brushwork.

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Where it is

Region

Gangnam-gu, Seoul

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료