Artist
Eison
Japanese
Eison is a Japanese Nanga artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Eison was a Japanese Buddhist monk active in the mid-Kamakura period. He founded the Shingon Risshu. Eison was born in Mikata village, Soejō District, Yamato Province, the son of the scholar-monk Keigen of Kōfuku-ji.
He is regarded as one of the representative figures of Kamakura Buddhism, known for reviving the neglected Buddhist precepts and restoring the declining Saidai-ji in Nara.
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