id: 136319 accession number: 1960.197 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.197 updated: 2023-01-11 00:53:33.391000 Buddha of Infinite Life and Light (Amida Nyorai), 1269. Kōshun (Japanese), assistant Koshin (Japanese), assistant Joshun (Japanese). Cypress wood with lacquer, color, gold, cut gold, rock crystal inlaid eyes, and quartz; overall: 94.6 cm (37 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1960.197 title: Buddha of Infinite Life and Light (Amida Nyorai) title in original language: 阿弥陀如来像 series: series in original language: creation date: 1269 creation date earliest: 1269 creation date latest: 1269 current location: 235B Japanese creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333) technique: Cypress wood with lacquer, color, gold, cut gold, rock crystal inlaid eyes, and quartz department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kōshun (Japanese) - artist * Koshin (Japanese) - artist * Joshun (Japanese) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 94.6 cm (37 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). 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 * 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 Shitenno-ji Temple, Osaka, Japan date: by 1931 or 1941 footnotes: *
Ikeda Publ.: Ikeda Daisendo, Kobijutsu shuho, II (Kyoto, 1931), pls. 37, 38.
publication date  either 1931 or 1941
citations: (Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1960 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1960- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: This ornate Buddha Amida stands in a posture of welcome, greeting the dying who will accompany him back to his Pure Land. Documents inserted into the sculpture’s hollow core around the time of its creation include a copy of the sacred text Amida Sutra, a register of donors who desired to be joined together in generating karmic merit (kechien) through the creation and dedication of the sculpture, and a record asserting that the image was completed over the course of 33 days in 1269 at Shitennōji Temple in Osaka. The lead sculptor was Kōshun, who had been granted the lofty title “Bridge of the Law.” wall description: This ornate Buddha Amida stands in a posture of welcome, greeting the dying who will accompany him back to his Pure Land. Documents inserted into the sculpture’s hollow core around the time of its creation include a copy of the sacred text Amida Sutra, a register of donors who desired to be joined together in generating karmic merit (kechien) through the creation and dedication of the sculpture, and a record asserting that the image was completed over the course of 33 days in 1269 at Shitennōji Temple in Osaka. The lead sculptor was Kōshun, who had been granted the lofty title “Bridge of the Law.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ikeda, Shōtarō 池田庄太郎. Ikeda Daisendō kobijutsu shūhō 池田大仙堂古美術集芳. Ōsaka: Ikeda Shōtarō, 1941. page number: Reproduced: pls. 37, 38 url: Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review| 1960.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 47, no. 10, 1960, pp. 223–254. page number: Mentioned: no. 19, p. 251; Reproduced: p. 232 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142422 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 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. 371 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n391 Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Japan Society, 1981. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 11, p. 31 url: Yoshiyasu, Tanaka, Kimiko Steiner, and Michael R. Cunningham. "The Statue of Amida Nyorai (Amitabha) Made by Kōshun." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 10 (1993): 378-93. page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 379-81; Mentioned: pp. 378-393 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161434 "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: Dobbins, James C. Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 8-9, fig. 5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.197/1960.197_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.197/1960.197_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.197/1960.197_full.tif