id: 136479 accession number: 1960.55 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.55 updated: 2023-08-25 11:18:40.240000 Cinerary Urn with Amida's Pure Land, 800s-900s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Gilt bronze; diameter of mouth: 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.); overall: 26.1 cm (10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1960.55 title: Cinerary Urn with Amida's Pure Land title in original language: 阿弥陀浄土図骨壺 series: series in original language: creation date: 800s-900s creation date earliest: 800 creation date latest: 999 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Heian period (794–1185) technique: gilt bronze department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter of mouth: 12.4 cm (4 7/8 in.); Overall: 26.1 cm (10 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Japanese Decorative Style opening date: 1961-08-30T04:00:00 Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961). title: Japanese Arts of the Heian Period opening date: 1967-10-05T04:00:00 Japanese Arts of the Heian Period. The Asia Society Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (October 5, 1967-February 19, 1968). title: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017 opening date: 2017-01-09T05:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 9-July 10, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Japanese Arts of the Heian Period: 794-1185. Asia House Gallery, New York City, NY (October 5-December 17, 1967) and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (January 17-February 25, 1968). * Masterpieces of Japanese Art. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas (October 4-November 30, 1969) * 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 Marquis Inoue date: footnotes: citations: (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, ?-1960, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1960 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1960-present date: 1960- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This urn once held someone’s ashes. It is decorated with images of the Pure Land of Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Life and Light. Heian-period devotees of Amida believed that if they called upon his name with sincerity at the moment of death, they would be born into his Pure Land, also known as the Western Paradise, and thereby escape the pattern of reincarnation. As shown on the lid of the urn, in the Pure Land, musical instruments float about playing by themselves. Its palatial structures and magnificent lotus pond are described on the body of the urn. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 18; cat. no. 12 url: https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n31 Rosenfield, John M. Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794-1185. [New York]: Asia Society, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pp. 72 and 116, cat. no. 26 url: Masterpieces of Japanese Art; [Catalogue of the Exhibition] October 4 Through November 30, 1969, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1969. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.55/1960.55_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.55/1960.55_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.55/1960.55_full.tif