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:			

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culture:	Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
technique:	Hanging scroll; silk and plant fiber embroidery
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Embroidery
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catalogue raisonne: 

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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 (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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fun fact:
The <em>Contemplation Sutra</em> is a sacred Buddhist text often used in Pure Land Buddhism.

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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 <em>Contemplation Sutra</em>.
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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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