{"data": {"id": 147155, "accession_number": "1973.105", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Za\u014d Gongen (\u8535\u738b\u6a29\u73fe\u50cf), 1200s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185\u20131333). Wood; average: 106.7 cm (42 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. 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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).", "opening_date": "1975-09-24T04:00:00"}, {"id": 311446, "title": "Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection", "description": "<i>Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).", "opening_date": "1991-09-17T04:00:00"}, {"id": 222773, "title": "The World of Enno-Gyoja and Shugendoh:  Secret Treasures of Mountain Asceticism", "description": "<i>The World of Enno-Gyoja and Shugendoh:  Secret Treasures of Mountain Asceticism</i>. 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Za\u014d appeared at the behest of En no Gy\u014dja, who prayed for a powerful protector of the mountain. The deity was described as a combined manifestation of the Buddha Shakyamuni, Thousand-Armed Kannon, and Miroku. These three deities were viewed as the past, present, and future protectors of the world. Za\u014d\u2019s appearance derives from portrayals of fierce Buddhist deities.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79926239"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1973.105-zao-gongen"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Ikawa, Kazuko. \"Statues of Zao Gongen and Kongo Doji.\" <em>Bijutsu Kenkyu </em>[\u7f8e\u8853\u784f\u7a76 = The journal of art studies], no. 252, May 1967.", "page_number": "Reproduced:  pl. Ic a", "url": ""}, {"citation": "\u201cThe Year in Review for 1973.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 61, no. 2 (1974): 31\u201379.", "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 179, pp. 31 and 79; Reproduced: no. 179, p. 69", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 372", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n392"}, {"citation": "Yamane, Yu\u0304zo\u0304 \u5c71\u6839\u6709\u4e09, Shu\u0304jiro\u0304 Shimada \u5cf6\u7530\u4fee\u4e8c\u90ce, and Terukazu Akiyama \u79cb\u5c71\u5149\u548c. <em>Zaigai Nihon no shiho\u0304</em> [\u5728\u5916\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u81f3\u5b9d = Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections, vol. 8 ]. To\u0304kyo\u0304: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 90, p. 152, color pl. 90", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Shimizu, Zenzo. \"Japanese Sculpture in America and Canada.\" <em>Ars Buddhica</em>, no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67\u201388.", "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 22, p. 73", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue</em>. New York: Japan Society, 1981.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 28\u201329, no. 10", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Hijiri to inja: sansui ni kokoro o sumasu hitobito: tokubetsuten</em> [\u8056\u3068\u96a0\u8005 : \u5c71\u6c34\u306b\u5fc3\u3092\u6f84\u307e\u3059\u4eba\u3005 : \u7279\u522b\u5c55 = Saints and hermits : people in serenity deep in nature: special exhibition]. Nara: Nara Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, [Heisei 11] 1999.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "O\u0304saka Shiritsu Bijutsukan, and To\u0304bu Bijutsukan. <em>En no gyo\u0304ja to shugendo\u0304 no sekai: sangaku shinko\u0304 no hiho\u0304: En no gyo\u0304ja Shinpen Daibosatsu</em> <em>1300-nen onki kinen </em>[\u5f79\u884c\u8005\u3068\u4fee\u9a13\u9053\u306e\u4e16\u754c: \u5c71\u5cb3\u4fe1\u4ef0\u306e\u79d8\u5b9d: \u5f79\u884c\u8005\u795e\u8b8a\u5927\u83e9\u85a9 1300\u5e74\u9060\u5fcc\u8a18\u5ff5 = The World of Enno-Gyoja and Shugendoh: Secret Treasures of Mountain Asceticism]. 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