The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Ceramic Tiles with Poems by the Thirty-six Immortal Poets

Buddhism along the Silk Road

Thousands of years of trade and invasion brought Buddhist monks into contact with merchants and nomadic peoples in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. This short video, produced in conjunction with the exhibition Buddhism along the Silk Road: 5th–8th Century, shows how these interactions occurred.

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Ceramic Tiles with Poems by the Thirty-six Immortal Poets

Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663–1743)

Period:: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:: early 18th century
Culture:: Japan
Medium:: Glazed stoneware with enamels
Dimensions:: Each: H. 7 5/8 in. (19.3 cm); W. 7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm); Th. 3/16 in. (.5 cm)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Promised Gift from the Fishbein-Bender Collection, Promised Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender