The Second Coming of the Fifth Patriarch

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Masuda Taro 益田太郎 [1875-1953], Tokyo, Japan

1967-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Overall: 245 x 62 公分 (96 7/16 x 24 7/16 英吋)

[印] 人言洞裡桃花源，未必人間有此枝
Artist's seal: People allude to the Grotto of the Peach Blossoms; it is not likely that such a flowering branch would exist in our world.
Yintuoluo's seal has been trimmed away with only a trace surviving. Wai-kam Ho, CMA's Senior Research Curator of Oriental and Chinese Art from 1959-1983, believed that this was the same seal that has shown up on a number of surviving fragments.
此子無爺只有娘，禪師莫問幾時生。
青松未老黃梅飄，兩世都如夢一場。
[印] 楚石
1 inscription and 1 additional seal of Chushi Fanqi 楚石梵琦 (1296-1370).

Poem:

This child has no father, only a mother./
You, the Chan master, don’t need to ask when he was born./
The green pine is not yet old and the rain comes during yellow plum season./
Twice reincarnated, all just seems to be but a dream.
[seal] Chu shi

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