# Weizheng Riding on an Ox

- By: Yamaguchi Sekkei (Japanese, 1644–1732)
- By: Nanyuan Xingpai (Chinese, 1631–1692)
- Date: 1687
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Painting: 116.5 x 39 cm (45 7/8 x 15 3/8 in.); Mounted: 201.3 x 55.9 cm (79 1/4 x 22 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Gift of Nisaburo Mizutani
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1973.86)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1973.86/1973.86_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The inscription at the top of this painting was brushed by Ōbaku school monk Nanyuan Xingpai (Japanese: Nangen Shōha), a Chinese Buddhist monk who emigrated to Japan in 1654, while the painting was done in ink by Yamaguchi Sekkei, a Japanese painter active in Kyoto who was known for his Buddhist subjects, many of which remain in temples today. The figure here reads a text while riding backward upon a water buffalo. Sekkei's painting depicts the Chinese monk Weizheng (986–1049), also known as "Zheng of the Yellow Ox" after his favored mount. Nanyuan's inscription is a poem about the monk.