id: 439542 accession number: 1950.86.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.86.a updated: 2023-01-12 02:32:20.358000 Buddha of the Future (Miroku Bosatsu), late 600s. Japan, Asuka period (538–710). Cast bronze, incised, with traces of gilding; figure: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1950.86.a 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: Figure: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235 opening date: 2021-04-23T04:00:00 Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Special Loan Exhibition of Art treasures from Japan. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (September-October 1936). * Masterpieces of Japanese Art. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas (October 4-November 30, 1969) * 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). --- 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: 1936–1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1950– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The Sanskrit name of this being, Maitreya, derives from the Sanskrit word for friend, mita. digital description: wall description: Buddhism was introduced to Japan in the sixth century. For early Japanese devotees, Buddhism offered the promise of salvation through faith in the Buddha of the Future, who would appear at the end of the world. The concept of eternal salvation held particular resonance with the Japanese aristocracy, who became the staunchest supporters of this new faith. Small sculptures like this one, with its gentle grace and powerful presence, were popular devotional objects. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: 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: p. 20p3-204 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 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 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 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.86.a/1950.86.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.86.a/1950.86.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.86.a/1950.86.a_full.tif