Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Ekaku is recorded in the Getty Union List of Artist Names with the biographical note: Japanese monk and painter, 1685 or 1686-1768. The Getty record lists him under the roles calligrapher, monk and painter, so he is recorded both as a monk and as a painter and calligrapher. The Metropolitan Museum of Art lists him as Japanese, 1686 to 1769 and holds Kannon by a Lotus Pond, a painting of the 1750s. The Getty record carries 14 name forms and the identifier 500121206. In this atlas he is linked as the maker of that work in the museum's collection.