id: 117808 accession number: 1938.422 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.422 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:35.246000 Medicine Master Buddha and the Twelve Divine Generals, 1200s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Hanging scroll painting; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk; image: 151.2 x 84.1 cm (59 1/2 x 33 1/8 in.); overall: 261 x 106.6 cm (102 3/4 x 41 15/16 in.); with knobs: 261 x 113.3 cm (102 3/4 x 44 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1938.422 title: Medicine Master Buddha and the Twelve Divine Generals title in original language: 薬師如来及び十二神将像 series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1185 creation date latest: 1333 current location: creditline: Edward L. Whittemore Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333) technique: Hanging scroll painting; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 151.2 x 84.1 cm (59 1/2 x 33 1/8 in.); Overall: 261 x 106.6 cm (102 3/4 x 41 15/16 in.); with knobs: 261 x 113.3 cm (102 3/4 x 44 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the Month: Herbs in Art opening date: 1953-05-08T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Herbs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 8-August 1, 1953). title: Restoration at Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties opening date: 1997-05-22T00:00:00 Restoration at Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties (organizer) (May 22, 1997-April 28, 1998). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - September 2016-January 2017 opening date: 2016-09-19T04:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - September 2016-January 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 19, 2016-January 8, 2017). title: Japanese Religious Art (Japanese art rotation) opening date: 2021-10-08T04:00:00 Japanese Religious Art (Japanese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2021-April 3, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).', 'opening_date': '1916-06-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-29T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Joseph Bangs Warner [1848–1923], Boston, MA date: by 1916–? footnotes: *
Joseph Bangs Warner was Langdon Warner’s father.    
citations: Langdon Warner [1881–1955] sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1938 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1938– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 10, p. 193; Reproduced: [no page number, before p. 191] url: https://archive.org/details/CMAInExhib_80860/page/n261/mode/2up?q=Joseph+b.+warner Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 10, p. 193 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAInExhib_80860/page/n261/mode/2up?q=Joseph+b.+warner Hollis, Howard. “Yakushi and the Twelve Generals.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 28, no. 4, 1941, pp. 47–55. page number: Mentioned: pp. 47-55; Reproduced: cover and p. 55 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140919 Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 345; Reproduced: p. 72, pl. 84 url: Suzuki, Susumu 鈴木進, and Shin'ichi Seki 瀬木慎一. Bessatsu Taiyō: kaigai e ryūshutsushita hihō [別册太陽 : 海外へ流出した秘宝 = Sun, supplement : Japanese art in the world]. Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1977. page number: Reproduced: p. 41, fig. 31 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 373 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n393 Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: p. 27 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. 178, fig. 7.12 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.422/1938.422_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.422/1938.422_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.422/1938.422_full.tif