IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 125537 accession number: PD.379-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The sixteen arhats (or rakan) were disciples of the Buddha Sakyamuni who were credited with supernatural powers which they practised to as apostles of the fiath between the time of Sakyamuni's death and the coming of the Maitreya, the Buddha of the future. They were traditionally depicted as old men with shaven heads wearing monastic robes and large earrings (large earlobes were associated with wisdom). title: drawing LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/125537 TECHNIQUES ---------- black ink (sumi), with pentimenti drawing (image-making) CATEGORIES ------ category: drawing DATING ------ creation date: 1870 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Kyôsai, Kawanabe