Japan, 18./19th c. 114 × 54 cm (painting). Ink and colours on silk, brocade mounting. Some creases. Framed under glass. Provenance: Old private collection from Southern Germany.An almost identical painting by Ry?zen (ca. 1328-ca. 1360), a Buddhist painter and monk of the Rinzai temple T?fuku-ji in Ky?t?, is located in the National Museum for Asian Art, the Freer/Sackler, Smithsonian Institute, accession no. F1904.304. The portrait of Arhat no. 10 belongs to a set of the 16 Arhat, painted in the so-called ry?min style (ry?min-y?) which refers to the Chinese painter Li Gonglin (or Longmian, jap. Ry?min) (1049–1106).