id: 130358 accession number: 1953.123 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.123 updated: 2023-01-10 23:52:18.099000 Welcoming Descent of Amida (Amida Raigō), 1300–1333. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk; image: 171.8 x 84.5 cm (67 5/8 x 33 1/4 in.); overall: 269.1 x 113.3 cm (105 15/16 x 44 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1953.123 title: Welcoming Descent of Amida (Amida Raigō) title in original language: 阿弥陀二十五菩薩来迎図 series: series in original language: creation date: 1300–1333 creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1333 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333) technique: hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 171.8 x 84.5 cm (67 5/8 x 33 1/4 in.); Overall: 269.1 x 113.3 cm (105 15/16 x 44 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation opening date: 2019-01-07T05:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 7-July 8, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art; Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 16-July 13, 2004). * The Cleveland Museum of Art; Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29-December 23, 2013). --- PROVENANCE (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1953 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1953- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In the Pure Land school of Buddhism, Amida Buddha is the focus of worship. Pictured here is the raigō, or the moment when Amida descends with his retinue to welcome a dying person into his Pure Land, called the Western Paradise. Once there, a person can concentrate on becoming enlightened. Images like this one could be placed before a person on their deathbed to help them stay faithful and motivated to attain birth in the Pure Land. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sano, Emily J., Randall Laird Nadeau, Alison J. Miller, Erin K. Murphy, and Katherine Crawford Luber. Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism. 2017. fig. 3.1 page number: 42 url: 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. 916 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n162 Grotennuis, Elizabeth Ten. "Visions of a Transcendent Realm: Pure Land Images in the Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 7 (1991): 274-300. page number: Reproduced: p. 288; Mentioned: p. 288-91 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161334 "Reopening of the Asian Galleries at The Cleveland Museum of Art: An Interview with David Franklin." Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, vol. 44, no. 8 (November/December 2013): pp. 60-63. page number: Reproduced: p. 61 url: Miller, Alison J. "Raigo: The Welcoming Descent of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism." In Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism. Sano, Emily J., Randall Laird Nadeau, and Alison J. Miller, p. 41-49. San Antonio, TX: San Antonio Museum of Art, 2017. page number: Reproduced: p. 42, fig. 3.1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.123/1953.123_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.123/1953.123_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.123/1953.123_full.tif