id: 140321 accession number: 1964.278 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.278 updated: 2023-03-10 19:42:51.821000 Shōtoku Taishi at Sixteen, early 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; image: 121.9 x 57.5 cm (48 x 22 5/8 in.); overall: 207.3 x 83.2 cm (81 5/8 x 32 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.278 title: Shōtoku Taishi at Sixteen title in original language: 聖徳太子孝養像及び二王子像 series: series in original language: creation date: early 1300s creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1333 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333) technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Image: 121.9 x 57.5 cm (48 x 22 5/8 in.); Overall: 207.3 x 83.2 cm (81 5/8 x 32 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00 The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). title: Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235 opening date: 2021-04-23T04:00:00 Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 29-December 23, 2013). --- PROVENANCE (Victor Lloyd Hauge [1919-2013] and Osborne I. Hauge [1913-2004], Falls Church, VA, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin) date: ?-1958 footnotes: citations: Severance A. [1895-1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903-1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1958-1964 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: One name for Shōtoku is "Prince Stable Door." digital description: The 16-year-old prince regent Shōtoku Taishi, garbed in Buddhist vestments, bears an incense burner. He is flanked by two attendants; one carries religious texts in a box and the other holds a nyoi ceremonial Buddhist scepter. The two
are sometimes identified as Shōtoku’s younger brother, Prince Eguri, and eldest son, Prince Yamashiro. Shōtoku has come to pray for his father, Emperor Yōmei (reigned 585–87), who is ill and on the point of death. Upon a miraculous
recovery, the emperor accepted Buddhism. wall description: Shotoku Taishi (about 574-622), prince regent, was attributed with numerous acts of faith in his lifetime, actions often related to the transmission of Buddhism to Japan. The many tales of Prince Shotoku’s religiosity make it difficult to confirm the scene being depicted here. This might show a moment when Prince Shotoku, aged 16, dropped to his knees in prayer during a battle between his clan, the Soga, and another clan. This might also relate to another time in Shotoku’s life when, again at the age of 16, Shotoku prayed day and night, dressed in full court attire and holding a long-handled incense burner, for the recovery of his sick father Emperor Youmei (reigned 585-87). At his miraculous recovery, the emperor converted to Buddhism. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of the Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1990. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 152, p. 87 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.278/1964.278_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.278/1964.278_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.278/1964.278_full.tif