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Skull
Also titled Schedel
Yamaoka Tesshū (1836–1888)
1836 - 1888
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 125.5 cm x width 62.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift F. Hess, 2018)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This work by the Zen master Tesshu bursts with energy. The inscription bears witness to his motto ‘live completely, die completely’: ‘Who knows where a human face ends? This is an old friend, lying under peach blossoms, smiling at the spring wind.
