Painting

  • Important Cultural Property

Picture Scroll of Allegory of Conceited Priests

  • Japan Kamakura period, ca.1296
  • Handscroll; ink and color on paper
  • h: 30.5cm l: 1025.0cm
  • [10363]

This is the final scroll of a set of seven scrolls in which the priests and monks of Nara and Kyoto's major temples are all shown as tengu long-nosed demons. The scrolls ridicule and satirize their arrogant actions. The names of the figures and their speech are noted within the composition.