“Honesty over Expediency”

Jiun Onkō

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Artist Name: Jiun Onkō
Title: “Honesty over Expediency”
Dimensions: painting：121.0×28.0cm
full length： 195.3×30.6cm
Medium: ink on paper
Description: Jiun Onkō (1718‐1804) was born in Ōsaka.

He became a monk at Hōrakuji Temple when he was 13 years old and there he learnt Buddhist Tantrism and Sanskrit.
After becoming a temple master of Chōeiji, he continued to practice asceticism.
From 1758 he started to live in quiet retirement.
Yanagisawa Yasumitsu, a feudal lord of Nara prefecture, supported him to construct Kōkiji Temple.
He passed away in 1804, and was buried in Kōkiji Temple.