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Staff and Fly Swatter
Also titled Staf en vliegenkwast
Suiō Genro (1716–1789)
1716 - 1789
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 111.2 cm x width 21.7 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 museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Important priests are normally depicted in full regalia, but this is different in Zen paintings. There, a portrait of a priest is often reduced to his attributes: a staff and a fly swatter as symbols of authority. The fly swatter also stands for ‘sweeping away’ evil influences, obstacles and ignorance.
