id: 128067 accession number: 1950.86 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.86 updated: 2025-07-11 17:03:24.292000 Buddha of the Future (Miroku Bosatsu), late 600s. Japan, Asuka period (538–710). Cast bronze, incised, with traces of gilding; overall: 45.8 cm (18 1/16 in.); figure: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1950.86 title: Buddha of the Future (Miroku Bosatsu) title in original language: 弥勒菩薩像 series: series in original language: creation date: late 600s creation date earliest: 675 creation date latest: 699 current location: 235B Japanese creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Asuka period (538–710) technique: cast bronze, incised, with traces of gilding department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 45.8 cm (18 1/16 in.); Figure: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 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: Japanese Art in America opening date: 1960-04-19T05:00:00 Japanese Art in America. The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA (April 19-May 15, 1960). title: Evolution of the Buddha Image opening date: 1963-05-07T04:00:00 Evolution of the Buddha Image. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (May 7-June 30, 1963). 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: Korea: Bridge of Culture opening date: 1980-06-11T04:00:00 Korea: Bridge of Culture. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 11-August 10, 1980). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Rinpa (琳派) opening date: 2021-04-23T04:00:00 Rinpa (琳派). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Special Loan Exhibition of Art treasures from Japan. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (September-October 1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-09-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Masterpieces of Japanese Art. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas (October 4-November 30, 1969)', 'opening_date': '1969-10-04T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-03-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Kansetsu Hashimoto 橋本関雪 [1883–1945] to Hollis and Company date: ?by October 1936–? footnotes: citations: (Hollis and Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ? after 1936–1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1950– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Edgell, George Harold. Illustrated Catalogue of a Special Loan Exhibition of Art Treasures from Japan. [Tokyo, Japan]: [Sanseido Press], 1936. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 6 url: Tomita, Kojiro. “The Special Exhibition of Art Treasures from Japan.” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, vol. 34, no. 205, 1936, pp. 64–77. page number: Reproduced: p. 66 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4170599 “Front Matter.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 37, no. 10, 1950. page number: Reproduced: cover url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141669 Milliken, William M. “A Miroku of the Suiko Period.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 37, no. 10, 1950, pp. 203–204. page number: Mentioned: pp. 203-204 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141670 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. 896 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n158 “Annual Report of the Year 1958.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 6 (June 1959): 111–158. page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: Bingham, Woodbridge, Hilary Conroy, and Frank William Iklé. A History of Asia. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 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 繭山順吉. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 341; Reproduced: p. 4, pl. 2 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 Masterpieces of Japanese Art; [Catalogue of the Exhibition] October 4 Through November 30, 1969, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1969. page number: Reproduced: pl. 6 url: Morant, Henry de, and Gérald Gassiot-Talabot. Histoire des arts décoratifs, des origines à nos jours. Suivie de Le design et les tendances actuelles. [Paris]: Hachette, 1970. page number: Reproduced: p. 99, no. 176 url: Paine, Robert Treat, and Alexander Coburn Soper. The Art and Architecture of Japan. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1975. page number: Mentioned: p. 39; Reproduced: p. 38, fig. 10 url: The Sun, no 21 (Winter 1977), Special Issue, "Japanese Art in the World." page number: Reproduced: p. 6, fig. 2 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. 368 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n388 Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Eastern Gate : An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan. Cleveland: Collins, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pp. 165 and 178 url: Shimizu, Zenzo 清水善三. "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada." Ars Buddhica 佛教藝術, no. 126, part I (September 1979), pp. 67–88. page number: Reproduced: fig. 10 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: pp. 14–15, no. 1 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 182–183 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned: no. 86, pp. 80–81, p. 119; Reproduced: p. 81 url: Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 72–73 url: Lin, Nancy. "5000 Years of Korean Art: Exhibitions abroad as cultural diplomacy." Journal of the History of Collections Vol. 28, no. 3 (2016): 383-400. page number: Reproduced: P. 396, fig. 9 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. 182–183, fig. 7.17 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.86/1950.86_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.86/1950.86_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.86/1950.86_full.tif