Picture of Bathing
Sui Dynasty
Mural. Painting from a popular tale based on the Buddhist Canon,Mogaoku Grotto no.302,Dunhuang.Two nude figures bathe in a pool surrounded by trees.Based on the story of a princess bathing under a spring that flows from the mouths of nine dragons in a collection of buddhist biographies,the picture resembles a painting from life of a mother bathing a child under a shower in the form of a dragon’s head.