Indara

A Taoist and Buddhist painter from the late Yuan Dynasty (14th century) in China. His birth and death years and career are unknown. He is known as the painter of the National Treasure "Dankan Zen Kaizu" (Divided Zen Meetings), which includes "Hanzan and Shide" (Tokyo National Museum), "Hotei" (Nezu Museum), and "Zenshi Chijo" (Seikado). His style follows the style of ink painting by Song and Yuan Zen monks who were hobbyists, but his concise expression is suitable for Zen meetings and paintings of the founders, and his brushwork, such as casually rubbing light ink, is highly unique. There are no surviving pieces in China, and only a few have been brought to Japan and survive. In addition, the name Indara is not found in Chinese painting history books, and the only other record of him is a two-line inscription on one of his belongings, in the Muromachi period book "Kundai Kanso Choki." Since there is a belongings bearing a signature by Soseki Bonki (1296-1370), a Zen monk of the Daie school at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it is assumed that he was a person of roughly the same age.

[Shinya Hoshiyama]

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中国、元代末期（14世紀）の人物道釈画家。生没年および経歴不詳。『寒山拾得(じっとく)図』（東京国立博物館）、『布袋(ほてい)図』（根津美術館）、『智常(ちじょう)禅師図』（静嘉堂(せいかどう)）などの国宝『禅機図断簡』の画家として知られる。画風は、宋(そう)・元禅僧の余技作家の水墨画の流れをくむが、その簡潔な表現は禅会図や祖師図にふさわしく、淡墨を無造作にこすりつけるなどの筆致はきわめて個性的である。中国に遺品がなく、日本に数幅が伝来現存している。また因陀羅の名は中国の画史類にみいだされず、わが国の室町時代の『君台観左右帳記(くんだいかんさうちょうき)』に天竺(てんじく)寺梵僧(ぼんそう)とあるほかは、一遺品に記された二行の款記しかない。元末の大慧(だいえ)派の禅僧楚石梵琦(そせきぼんき)（1296―1370）の著賛がある遺品の存するところから、ほぼ同年代の人と推定される。

［星山晋也］

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