id: 106262 accession number: 1924.351.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.351.1 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:57.693000 Guardian Animal: Komainu, 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Wood with traces of color; overall: 49.6 cm (19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1924.351.1 title: Guardian Animal: Komainu title in original language: 狛犬像 series: series in original language: creation date: 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1399 current location: 235A Japanese creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333) technique: Wood with traces of color department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 49.6 cm (19 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道-日本美術における神性の発見 opening date: 2019-04-09T04:00:00 Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道-日本美術における神性の発見. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 30, 2019). title: Animals in Japanese Art (Japanese art rotation) opening date: 2023-06-24T04:00:00 Animals in Japanese Art (Japanese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-December 10, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Kuroda Takuma 黒田太久馬 [1867-?], Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1924 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1924-present date: 1924- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sizer, Theodore. “A Note on the Japanese Collection.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 11, no. 9, 1924, pp. 174–175 and 187. page number: Mentioned: pp. 174-175; Reproduced: p. 187 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25136795 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 275 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n299 Mayuyama, Junkichi. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 344; Reproduced: p. 49, pl. 61 url: Zenzo Shimizu 清水善三. "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," Ars Buddhica 佛教藝術, no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67-88. page number: Reproduced: fig. 26 url: Vilbar, Sinéad. "The Japanese Art Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1915-1951." In Great Waves & Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan. Natsu Oyobe, and Allysa B. Peyton, eds., 160–197. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 173, fig. 7.10 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.351.1/1924.351.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.351.1/1924.351.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1924.351.1/1924.351.1_full.tif