id:			142834
accession number:	1966.513
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.513
updated:		2025-05-02 11:08:40.715000

Embroidered Welcoming Descent of Amida Triad, 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Hanging scroll; silk and human hair 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
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creation date:			1400s
creation date earliest:		1400
creation date latest:		1499
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creditline:			Gift of the American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Botanical Collection
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culture:	Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
technique:	Hanging scroll; silk and human hair embroidery
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Embroidery
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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.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1967
	opening date:   1967-11-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1967</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	American Foundation for the Maud E. and Warren H. Corning Collection, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1966
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1966–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“Year in Review.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, 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.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, 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. <em>Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography</em>. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 85, p. 141
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	Grotenhuis, Elizabeth ten. “Bodily Gift and Spiritual Pledge: Human hair in Japanese Buddhist Embroideries." <em>Orientations,</em> Fan/Feb 2004, pp. 31–35.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 1; p. 32, fig. 1a
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	Li, Yuhang. “Embroidering Guanyin: Constructions of the Divine through Hair.” <em>East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine</em>, no. 36 (2012): 131–166.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 157, fig. 2; Mentioned: p. 139
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/43151279

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