Asia
Portraits and self-portraits have a longer continuous history in Asian art than in Europe. Many in the scholar gentleman tradition are quite small, depicting the artist in a large landscape, illustrating a poem in calligraphy on his experience of the scene. Another tradition, associated with Zen Buddhism, produced lively semi-caricatured self-portraits, whilst others remain closer to the conventions of the formal portrait.
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Miyamoto Musashi, Samurai, writer and artist, c. 1640.
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Hakuin Ekaku was a Zen monk, who painted many self-portraits of himself as sages of the past, 1764, Tokyo.
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Motoori Norinaga, late 18th century, Japan
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Hokusai, early 19th century, Japan
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Another Hokusai, Louvre
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Kikuchi Yōsai, 1856-7, Japan.
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Chen Hongshou, China, 1635
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Ren Xiong, a member of the Shanghai school, c.1850
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