id: 126730 accession number: 1949.158 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.158 updated: 2025-06-11 11:04:25.960000 Gigaku Mask of Young Persian Boy (Taikōji), 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 Young Persian Boy (Taikōji) title in original language: 伎楽面・太孤児 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, Cleveland, OH (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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (Spring 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 10, 2013-November 17, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2013-04-10T00:00:00'} --- 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: digital description: wall description: --- 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 Milliken, William M. “Important Acquisitions of Japanese Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 38, no. 9, 1951, pp. 211–217. page number: Mentioned: p. 211 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141741 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 Kleinschmidt, Peter. “Die Masken Der Gigaku Der äLtesten Theaterform Japans.” Ph.D. diss., Universität Köln, 1964. page number: url: 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: Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 17, no. 3 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: Iwata, Shigeki. "Gigaku Masks at the Cleveland Museum of Art and Tsunashiki Tenmangu Shrine." Bulletin of the Nara National Museum 23 (March 2021): 15–22. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15, fig. 1 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: pp. 180–181, fig. 7.15 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