id:			144291
accession number:	1969.126
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.126
updated:		2025-08-07 22:59:06.948000

Guardian Figure, 1000s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Wood with polychromy and kirikane (cut-gold); overall: 93.2 cm (36 11/16 in.); figure: 78.1 cm (30 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1969.126

title:				Guardian Figure
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creation date:			1000s
creation date earliest:		1000
creation date latest:		1099
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
technique:	wood with polychromy and kirikane (cut-gold)
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 93.2 cm (36 11/16 in.); Figure: 78.1 cm (30 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1969
	opening date:   1970-01-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Wood Sculpture of the Heian Period in Commemoration of the Founding of the Institute. </em>National Institute of Research on Important Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan (1967).', 'opening_date': '1967-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-03-19T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Yasunosuke Ogiwara, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1969
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1969–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures</em>. San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.
	page number: 	Comparable Material. Reproduced: pl. A, p. 14
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	“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em> 24 (1970–1971): 86–117.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 87, 108; Reproduced: p. 88, fig. 7
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/20111025

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 1 (1970): 2–50.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 220, p. 51; Reproduced: no. 220, p. 34
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307

	Shimizu Zenzō, "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," <em>Bukkyō geijutsu </em>[佛教藝術= Ars Buddhica] , no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67–88.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 70, fig. 11
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	Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue</em>. New York: Japan Society, 1981.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 22–23, no. 7
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