| Believed to have been painted by an acquaintance for a Nanzen-ji Temple monk named Shihaku to depict his ideal hermit lifestyle and is known as the oldest surviving shosai-zu (a landscape paintings with an inscription of verses expounding the ideal lifestyle of a Zen monk). |
南禅寺の僧であった子璞（しはく）のために知人が子璞の心の中の書斎を描いたとされるもので、書斎図（室町時代に流行した絵に多くの漢詩文が書き付けられている詩画軸の一種）の現存最古の作品として知られる。 |