id:			130316
accession number:	1952.90
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1952.90
updated:		2025-03-05 12:07:40.890000

Bodhisattva, c. 1200–1250. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Lacquered wood with color, gilt copper, and cut-gold (kirikane); with base: 76.2 cm (30 in.); without base: 55.9 cm (22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1952.90

title:				Bodhisattva
title in original language:	観音菩薩像
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creation date:			c. 1200–1250
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1250
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333)
technique:	lacquered wood with color, gilt copper, and cut-gold (kirikane)
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: with base: 76.2 cm (30 in.); without base: 55.9 cm (22 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Hara Tomitarō 原富太郎 [1868–1939], Yokohama, Japan
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	(Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1952
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1952–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman. "A Japanese Wood Sculpture of the Kamakura Period." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>42, no. 3 (March 1955): 45–48.<br><br>Published as Kwannon
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 46; Reproduced: pp. 46–47
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142024

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 907
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n160

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 275
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n299

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 275
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n299

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 371
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n391

	Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Shūjirō Shimada 島田修二郎, and Terukazu Akiyama 秋山光和. <em>Zaigai Nihon no shihō</em> [在外日本の至宝 = Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections, vol. 8 ]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 27, p. 127; Reproduced: color plate 27
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	Zenzo Shimizu 清水善三. "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," <em>Ars Buddhica</em> 佛教藝術, no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67–88.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 8
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	<em>Hara Sankei kyūzō Nihon bijutsuten: Sankei Kinenkan kaikan kinen tokubetsuten </em>原三溪旧蔵日本美術展: 三溪記念館開館記念特别展 [Hara Sankei Former Collection of Japanese Art Exhibition: Special Exhibition Commemorating the Opening of the Sankei Memorial Museum]. Yokohama-shi: Sankeien Hoshōkai三溪園保勝会, 1989.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pl. 132
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