id: 142834 accession number: 1966.513 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.513 updated: 2023-01-11 02:24:32.478000 Embroidered Welcoming Descent of Amida Triad, 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Hanging scroll; silk and plant fiber embroidery; embroidery: 109.1 x 37.2 cm (42 15/16 x 14 5/8 in.); mounted: 173.1 x 49.4 cm (68 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection 1966.513 title: Embroidered Welcoming Descent of Amida Triad title in original language: 繡仏阿弥陀三尊来迎図 series: series in original language: creation date: 1400s creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1499 current location: creditline: Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection copyright: --- culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) technique: Hanging scroll; silk and plant fiber embroidery department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Embroidery: 109.1 x 37.2 cm (42 15/16 x 14 5/8 in.); Mounted: 173.1 x 49.4 cm (68 1/8 x 19 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Collection, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The Contemplation Sutra is a sacred Buddhist text often used in Pure Land Buddhism. digital description: wall description: The Buddha Amida arrives here to welcome a person to his Pure Land at the moment of death. A monk, a woman, and a child sit with their hands in prayer, and a beam of light emanating from Amida extends toward them. The inscription at the top indicates that the compassion of Amida Buddha always flows impartially to all those who recite his name, a quote from the Contemplation Sutra. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Year in Review.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 10, 1967, pp. 302–346. page number: Reproduced: no. 175, p. 336; Mentioned: p. 347 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152183 Grotenhuis, Elizabeth ten. “Visions of a Transcendent Realm: Pure Land Images in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 78, no. 7, 1991, pp. 274–300. page number: Reproduced: p. 290, fig. 14 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161334 Grotenhuis ten, Elizabeth. Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. page number: Reproduced: fig. 85, p. 141 url: Grotenhuis, Elizabeth ten. “Bodily Gift and Spiritual Pledge: Human hair in Japanese Buddhist Embroideries." Orientations, Fan/Feb 2004, pp. 31–35. page number: Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 1; p. 32, fig. 1a url: Li, Yuhang. “Embroidering Guanyin: Constructions of the Divine through Hair.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, no. 36 (2012): 131–166. page number: Reproduced: p. 157, fig. 2; Mentioned: p. 139 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43151279 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.513/1966.513_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.513/1966.513_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.513/1966.513_full.tif