id: 126730 accession number: 1949.158 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.158 updated: 2020-09-25 09:00:43.462000 Gigaku Mask of Drunken Foreign Attendant (Suikojū), 710-94. Japan, Nara period (710-94). Paulownia wood, lacquered and painted; overall: 28 x 21 x 18.5 cm (11 x 8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1949.158 title: Gigaku Mask of Drunken Foreign Attendant (Suikojū) title in original language: 伎楽面・酔胡従 series: series in original language: creation date: 710-94 creation date earliest: 710 creation date latest: 794 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Nara period (710-94) technique: paulownia wood, lacquered and painted department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 28 x 21 x 18.5 cm (11 x 8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: The Mask opening date: 1951-10-27T05:00:00 The Mask. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1951-January 14, 1952). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965). 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 (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (Spring 1981). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 10, 2013-November 17, 2015). --- PROVENANCE (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, and New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1949 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1949- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The king served by this attendant is sometimes described as Persian. digital description: This mask is for the role of an attendant to a foreign king in gigaku, a theatrical dance repertoire imported to Japan from continental Asia during the seventh century. The king and his entourage perform a drunken dance. While the mask would cover the entire head of the actor, there are openings for the eyes, nostrils, and mouth. wall description: Gigaku, a ceremonial dance popular during the Nara period, often drew on Japanese folklore as well as Buddhist stories. This particular mask relates to the comic story of King Suiko [n.b. This is not someone's name. Sui means drunk and ko (hu in Chinese) means foreign.] and his travails. With its comic expression, this mask depicts one of the eight drunken attendants of the king. These attendants would appear at the end of the play, engaging in a humorous dance called the harameki. While the mask would cover the entire head of the actor, there are openings for the eyes, nostrils, and mouth. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Milliken, William M. “A Gigaku Mask.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 37, no. 8, 1950, pp. 176–178. page number: Reproduced: cover; Mentioned; pp. 176-178 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141655 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 900 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n159 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. 273 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n297 Mayuyama, Junkichi. Japanese Art in the West. Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. page number: Reproduced: pl. 9, pp. 10 and 341 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 273 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n297 Lee, Sherman E. “Noh: Masks and Robe.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 62, no. 2, 1975, pp. 26–35. page number: Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 27 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152574 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. 369 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n389 Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Shūjirō Shimada 島田修二郎, and Terukazu Akiyama 秋山光和. Zaigai Nihon no shihō [在外日本の至宝 = Japanese art: selections from western collections]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979. page number: Reproduced: no. 93, p. 154, pl. 93 url: Zenzo Shimizu, "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. 29, p. 74 url: Mizuno, Keizaburō 水野敬三郎, Hideo Okada 岡田英男, and Kazuharu Asai 浅井和春. Tōdaiji to Heijōkyō: Nara no kenchiku, chōkoku [東大寺と平城京 : 奈良の建築・彫刻 = The Sculpture and Architecture of the Nara Dynasty ]. Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 1990. page number: Reproduced: fig. 148, p. 147 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.158/1949.158_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.158/1949.158_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.158/1949.158_full.tif