id: 131797 accession number: 1954.373 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.373 updated: 2022-09-22 09:50:38.623000 Deity, 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Magnolia wood with traces of color; overall: 100 cm (39 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.373 title: Deity title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1100s creation date earliest: 1100 creation date latest: 1199 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Heian period (794–1185) technique: Magnolia wood with traces of color department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 100 cm (39 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). title: Katachi: Form and Spirit in Japanese Art opening date: 1980-03-02T05:00:00 Katachi: Form and Spirit in Japanese Art. The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (organizer) (March 2-June 8, 1980). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018 opening date: 2017-07-15T04:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Japanese Art Exhibition. Albuquerque Museum of Art, History and Science, Albuquerque, NM (1980). --- PROVENANCE Ryūzaburō Umehara 梅原 龍三郎 [1888-1986], Tokyo, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Hollis & Company, New York, NY and Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1954 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1954- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: This unidentified sculpture represents a mature male figure with a long beard. His robes, crown-like head ornament, and hair arranged into a topknot resemble the attire and styling of members of the heavenly realm—tenbu in Japanese—of the Buddhist cosmos. The comparatively simple design, along with carving marks purposely left by the sculptor throughout the surface tend to be associated with sculptures of kami, deities venerated at shrines, or jinja. wall description: This sculpture belongs to a large group thought to have come from Izumo in Shimane prefecture. The simple carving technique seen in the figure is often used for sculptures of Shinto deities (kami). His hairstyle, adornments, and garments identify him as a deity from the heavenly realm of Buddhism. Together, the group of sculptures represents the 28 heavenly beings who protect and serve the bodhisattva Kannon in his thousand-armed manifestation. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “A Hand and an Image of Wood.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 44, no. 1, 1957, pp. 3–9. page number: Reproduced: p. 7 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142178 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. 906 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n160 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. 275 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n299 Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 342; Reproduced: p. 24, pl. 28 url: The Human Adventure IV, grade 6, vol. I. Cleveland: Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland, 1966-1967. page number: Reproduced: p. 325 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. 275 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n299 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. 370 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n390 Zenzo Shimizu 清水善三. "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. 21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.373/1954.373_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.373/1954.373_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.373/1954.373_full.tif