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White-on-black woodcut of a scowling bald robed figure seated on rocks, with a dragon coiling at upper right and Chinese characters across the top.

Handaka Sonja, a Lohan with a dragon, woodcut

A bald, scowling robed monk, identified in the record as the arhat Handaka Sonja, sits on rocky clouds beside a coiling dragon at upper right. The white-on-black woodcut imitates an ink stone rubbing, with columns of Chinese characters running across the top.

Artist
Unknown
Date
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Medium
Woodcuts
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
2137 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1909.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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