# The Chinese Taoist Immortals, Han-shan and Shih-te (Kanzan and Jittoku)

- By: Hashimoto Gaho 橋本雅邦 (1835-1908)
- Date: 1886
- Medium: Ink and slight tint on paper
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 122 × 58.1 cm (48 1/16 × 22 7/8 in)
- Culture: Japanese
- Credit line: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://asia.si.edu/object/F1902.227/)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/60856a3702e8956159210894d6433884.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Chinese hermits known in Japanese as Kanzan (Hanshan in Chinese) and Jittoku (Shide in Chinese), lived near the sacred mountain Tiantaishan during the Tang dynasty (618-907). They appear frequently in Zen Buddhist paintings, in which they represent rejection of the secular world. Here Kanzan opens a scroll of his poetry, while Jittoku, a servant at a monastery, looks on.