# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kun-can
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:03:43.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kun-can"
name: "Kun Can"
slug: "kun-can"
description: "Kun Can was a Chinese Buddhist monk and painter during Ming and Qing dynasties. He hailed from Hunan, but spent most of his life in Nanjing. He became a Chan Buddhist monk at an early age and in Nanjing was abbot of a monastery on Niushou Shan. His style of landscape painting was influenced by Wang Meng and he is one of the Four Monk Masters in the early Qing Dynasty. The others being Zhu Da, Hong Ren, and Shitao. As he was also known as Shi Xi he was at times said to be one of the \"Two Shi\". Few of Kun Can's works survive."
tagline: "Chinese painter (1612-1674)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Kun_Can%27s_Landscape_with_waterfalls_and_trees.jpg/330px-Kun_Can%27s_Landscape_with_waterfalls_and_trees.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1612"
deathDate: "1674"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.03
  momentum:             4.686901832102816
  historical:           8.943989333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%A1%E6%AE%98"
    title: "髡殘"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun_Can"
    title: "Kun Can"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "کون چان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun_Can"
    title: "Kun Can"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun_Can"
    title: "Kun Can"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuncan"
    title: "Kuncan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun_Can"
    title: "Kun Can"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kun_Can"
    title: "Kun Can"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Куньцань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%A6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C"
    title: "Кунь Цань"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3200407"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump