page_title: Hanshan and Shide
section_title: Pre-modern Representations
hierarchical_section_title: Hanshan and Shide / Visual Representations / Representations as a pair / Pre-modern Representations
caption_attribution_description: English: Detached segment of the Deeds of the Zen Masters (紙本墨画禅機図断簡, shihon bokuga zenkizu dankan): Hanshan and Shide (寒山拾得図, kanzan jittokuzu). Handscroll, 35.0 x 49.5 cm. Ink on paper. Located at Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo. 日本語: 因陀羅「寒山拾得図」　元・14世紀 紙本墨画 （国宝）　東京都 東京国立博物館
context_page_description: Hanshan and Shide are popular figures in Zen painting. They have been depicted many times as a pair, and the duo has become an identifiable motif in Zen painting and representative of deeper meanings in Zen Buddhism as a whole. Hanshan, whose name means "Cold Mountain," is believed to be an eccentric Zen poet from the Tang Dynasty who lived on the Tiantang Mountain in Zhejiang Province. Shide, whose name means "foundling" or "pickup," was a kitchen worker at the nearby Guoqing Temple. He is said to have been abandoned by his family, and then found and raised by Fenggan, another Zen eccentric. As legend goes, the two formed a close friendship, with Shide stealing scraps from the kitchen to bring to Hanshan, and the pair spending time in nature, away from societal structure and institutions. Little is verified about the lives of these two figures, and they "have come to exist only in the works they have left behind."
  Hanshan and Shide are easily recognizable in Zen painting. They are almost always depicted wearing scrappy and ratty clothing, appearing disheveled, wandering in nature, laughing, or with mischievous looks on their faces.
caption: Hanshan and Shide (寒山拾得図, kanzan jittokuzu). Handscroll, 35.0 × 49.5 cm. Ink on paper. Located at Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo.
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