id: 144301 accession number: 1969.130 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.130 updated: 2022-01-04 16:39:57.523000 Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra and Eleven Volumes of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, late 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork; height: 160 cm (63 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1969.130 title: Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra and Eleven Volumes of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra title in original language: 大般若経厨子及び大般若経内11巻 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1100s creation date earliest: 1175 creation date latest: 1185 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Heian period (794–1185) technique: lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Lacquer find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: height: 160 cm (63 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1969 opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). title: The Past Century of Nara National Museum - From Preaching Scene of Shakyamuni to Picture Scroll of Kusamakura opening date: 1997-04-26T00:00:00 The Past Century of Nara National Museum - From Preaching Scene of Shakyamuni to Picture Scroll of Kusamakura. Nara National Museum (organizer) (April 26-June 1, 1997). title: Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2009-06-27T04:00:00 Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * An Historical Reunion: Daihannyakyo Buddhist Tabernacles from The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nara National Museum. Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan. (April 29-May 21, 2000). Exhibition of the CMA repository newly conserved through the Research Institute for Cultural Properties program with the Nara National Museum's repository. * Gallery 237 (Japanese and Korean Art). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 23, 2013-November 17, 2015) --- PROVENANCE Kamigamosha [Kamigamo Shrine], Kyoto, Japan date: footnotes: citations: Jinkō'in, Kyoto, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1969 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The mate to this object is in the Nara National Museum in Japan. digital description: This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Two discs painted on the back have the sacred syllables representing the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Buddha Amida. Eight of the 16 benevolent but fierce looking deities who protect the text appear on the doors. wall description: This repository was created to house nearly 300 sutras, or religious scrolls. On the inside of the doors, fierce figures dressed in elaborate armor and decorated with gold and silver foil served as guardians for the scrolls. On the back wall, there are two stylized Sanskrit names: Shaka, the historical Buddha, on the left, and Amida, the Buddha of the Western Paradise, on the right. The whole structure is on a base of two lotuses, symbols of purity. One of a pair of known surviving repositories, these incredibly fine luxury objects might have been commissioned as a way of gaining religious merit during uncertain times. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 57, no. 1, 1970, pp. 2–50. page number: Reproduced: no. 236, p. 35; Mentioned: p. 51 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307 “Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 24, 1970, pp. 86–117. page number: Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 88; Mentioned: p. 87 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111025 "New Oriental art galleries at Cleveland." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts. August 1970, Vol. 92, pp. 148-151. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 4, p. 149 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 371 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n391 Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三. Zaigai bijutsu [在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994. page number: Reproduced: pp. 223, 236, no. 134 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Reproduced: pp. 188-189 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 88, p. 82; Mentioned p. 119 url: Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 27 url: "Stories from Storage." The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 24, no. 5: 6-7. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 6-7 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.130/1969.130_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.130/1969.130_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.130/1969.130_full.tif