id:			135591
accession number:	1959.135
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1959.135
updated:		2023-03-20 14:14:12.798000

Guardian King of the North (Bishamonten), 1185–1333. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Wood with gold polychromy; overall: 76.8 x 28.6 cm (30 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.); base: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee and Cornelia Blakemore Warner Funds 1959.135

title:				Guardian King of the North (Bishamonten)
title in original language:	毘沙門天像
series:				
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creation date:			1185–1333
creation date earliest:		1185
creation date latest:		1333
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creditline:			James Parmelee and Cornelia Blakemore Warner Funds
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333)
technique:	wood with gold polychromy
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 76.8 x 28.6 cm (30 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.); Base: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 12-July 16, 2003).

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PROVENANCE

	(Mathias Komor, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1959
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1959-
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wall description:
In Buddhism, Bishamonten is one of four kings who protect the cardinal directions. He stands with a stupa symbolizing the Buddhist teachings and relics of the Buddha in the palm of his left hand, and a spear to foil the enemies of Buddhism in his right. He crushes a demon beneath his feet.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ikeda, Shōtarō 池田庄太郎. <em>Kobijutsu shūho: Ikeda Daisendō</em> 古美術集芳: 池田大仙堂. Kyōto: Yamamoto Koshū, 1941.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  vol. 2, pls. 37-38
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	Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 46, no. 10, 1959, pp. 210–231.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 221; Mentioned; p. 229
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142366

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Divine: And the Terrible.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 48, no. 1, 1961, pp. 5–9.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 5-9; Reproduced: p. 7, fig. 2
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142429

	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. 12
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