id: 137057 accession number: 1961.48 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.48 updated: 2025-07-02 19:49:10.447000 Sun Bodhisattva (Nikkō Bosatsu), c. 800. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Japanese nutmeg-yew wood with traces of color and gold; overall: 46.7 cm (18 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1961.48 title: Sun Bodhisattva (Nikkō Bosatsu) title in original language: 日光菩薩像 series: series in original language: creation date: c. 800 creation date earliest: 795 creation date latest: 805 current location: 235B Japanese creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Heian period (794–1185) technique: Japanese nutmeg-yew wood with traces of color and gold department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 46.7 cm (18 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 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); Fogg Art Museum/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (January 17-February 25, 1968). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: The Twain Shall Meet opening date: 1985-10-30T05:00:00 The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). 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: Rinpa (琳派) opening date: 2021-04-23T04:00:00 Rinpa (琳派). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1967-10-05T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1981-03-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Setsu Inosuke 濑津伊之助 [1897–1969], Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1961.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 48, no. 9, 1961, pp. 219–251. page number: Mentioned: no. 42, p. 249; Reproduced: no. 42, p. 225 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142473 Lee, Sherman E. “Nikkō, the Sun Bodhisattva.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 48, no. 10, 1961, pp. 259–265. page number: Mentioned: pp. 259–265; Reproduced: figs. 1-3 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142478 “Oriental Art Recently Acquired by American Museums.” Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 16, 1962, pp. 104–124. page number: Reproduced: p. 106, fig. 8 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20067049 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. 274 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n298 The Human Adventure IV, grade 6, vol. I. Cleveland: Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland, 1966-1967. page number: Reproduced: p. 237 url: Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 342; Reproduced: p. 16, pl. 17 url: Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: no. 70 url: Rosenfield, John M. Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794-1185. New York, NY: Asia Society, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pl. 11 url: Oriental Art, vol. 13, no. 4 (Winter 1967). page number: Reproduced: p. 244 url: Brozostoski, John. "Art in the Serene Capital of No." Arts Magazine (Sept.-Oct. 1967). page number: Reproduced: p. 38 url: Rosenfield, John M. Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794-1185. [New York]: Asia Society, 1967. page number: Reproduced: pp. 8 and 112, cat. no. 11 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. 274 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n298 Praeger Encyclopedia of Art. London: Pall Mall Press, Ltd., 1971. page number: Reproduced: vol. 3, p. 1053 url: 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. 369 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n389 Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Shūjirō Shimada 島田修二郎, and Terukazu Akiyama 秋山光和. Zaigai Nihon no shihō [在外日本の至宝 = Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections, vol. 8 ]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979. page number: Mentioned: no. 17, p. 123; Reproduced: color plate 17 url: Moore, Janet Gaylord. The Eastern Gate: An Invitation to the Arts of China and Japan. Cleveland, OH: Collins, 1979. page number: Reproduced: pp. 177 and 179 url: 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. 6 url: Roukes, Nicholas. Masters of Wood Sculpture. New York: Watson-Guptill Publishers, 1980. page number: Reproduced: p. 14 url: Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 1 url: "Asian Art in American Museums." Sculpture Review, XXXIII, no. 3 (Fall 1984). page number: p. 22 url: Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 343, fig. 33 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159914 Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Takashi Hamada 山根有三, et al. Zaigai bijutsu [在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994. page number: Mentioned: pp. 213, 237, no. 120. url: Liebson, Milt. Direct Wood Sculpture: Techniques, Innovation, Creativity. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2001. page number: p. 13 url: Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 20 url: Rosenfield, John M. "Sherman Lee: Early Encounters with Asian Art," Orientations, (Jan/Feb. 2005) vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 46-47. page number: Reproduced: p. 46 url: Filler, Martin. "The Global Eye of Sherman Lee": The Magazine Antiques, (October 2008), pp. 122–129. page number: Reproduced: title page and pp. 122–123 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.48/1961.48_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.48/1961.48_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.48/1961.48_full.tif