Kankyu - Kankyu

A monk from the Five Dynasties in the late Tang Dynasty of China. Born in Wuzhou Lanxi (Jinhua County, Zhejiang Province). He spent the last 10 years of his life in Shu, where he was treated well by Wang Jian (847-918). His common surname was Jiang. His pen name was Deyin. He was known as Zengetsu Daishi, and was famous for his poetry, calligraphy, and Taoist and Buddhist paintings, especially his paintings of arhat. The arhat is said to have been perceived in a dream, and has a strange appearance called Houmei Daimoku or Kobo Bonso. Many copies were made of this work at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and two versions of "Arhat Paintings" attributed to Kankyu have been passed down to Japan as Zengetsu-style paintings: a sumi-e version (such as the Nezu Museum version) and a colored version of the Sixteen Arhat (such as the Imperial Collection version). His collection of poetry and prose, "Zengetsushu," has been handed down, although some parts are missing.

[Shinya Hoshiyama January 19, 2017]

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中国、唐末五代の僧。婺州蘭渓(むしゅうらんけい)（浙江(せっこう)省金華県）の出身。晩年の10年を王建（847―918）に厚遇されて蜀(しょく)で過ごしている。俗姓は姜(きょう)氏。字(あざな)は徳隠。禅月大師と号し、詩名高く、書に優れ、道釈画を描き、とくに羅漢(らかん)画で知られる。その羅漢は、夢で感得したと伝え、龐眉大目(ほうびだいもく)、胡貌梵相(こぼうぼんそう)といわれた怪奇な形相で、南宋(なんそう)末には多く模倣されて、日本にも禅月様として、水墨系のもの（根津美術館本など）と着色十六羅漢（御物本など）の2系統の伝貫休筆『羅漢図』が伝来している。詩文集に『禅月集』があり、一部を欠くが伝存している。

［星山晋也　2017年1月19日］

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