id: 145414 accession number: 1970.67.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.67.b updated: 2025-04-16 18:02:50.758000 Portrait of the Zen Master Hotto Kokushi (bench), c. 1286. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Wood with hemp cloth, black lacquer, and iron clamps; overall: 36.5 x 74 x 38.1 cm (14 3/8 x 29 1/8 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1970.67.b title: Portrait of the Zen Master Hotto Kokushi (bench) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1286 creation date earliest: 1281 creation date latest: 1291 current location: 235B Japanese creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333) technique: wood with hemp cloth, black lacquer, and iron clamps department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 36.5 x 74 x 38.1 cm (14 3/8 x 29 1/8 x 15 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture opening date: 1975-09-24T04:00:00 Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975). title: Masterworks of Wood: China and Japan opening date: 1976-11-04T05:00:00 Masterworks of Wood: China and Japan. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (organizer) (November 4-December 5, 1976); Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (January 13-March 27, 1977). title: Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art opening date: 1983-03-16T04:00:00 Reflections of Reality in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 16-May 1, 1983). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00 Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). 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: Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018 opening date: 2017-07-15T04:00:00 Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 235). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 15, 2013-November 16, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2013-04-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-03-19T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Myōshinji, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan date: footnotes: citations: (Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1970 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1970– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Kurata, Osamu 蔵田蔵 Kumano [熊野]. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1968. page number: Reproduced: p. 60, no. 64 url: Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (February 1971): 22–71. page number: Mentioned: no. 168, p. 72; Reproduced: no. 168, Back Cover url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361 Lee, Sherman E. “Zen in Art: Art in Zen.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 9 (November 1972): 239–259. page number: Mentioned: pp. 239, 251, 259, note 16a; Reproduced: pp. 248, 249, figs. 9 and 9a url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152451 Lee, Sherman E. “Noh: Masks and Robe.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 2 (February 1975): 26–35. page number: Mentioned: p. 28, fig. 5; Reproduced: p. 29, fig. 5 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152574 Jenkins, Donald, and Robin Scribnick. Masterworks in Wood: China and Japan: [Exhibition] Portland Art Museum, November 4 Through December 5, 1976, Asia House Gallery, January 13 Through March 20, 1977. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1976. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 44, pp. 8, 9, 91 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. 370 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n390 WVIZ-TV (Television station: Cleveland, Ohio), and Cleveland Museum of Art. The Priest of Myoshinji. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [WVIZ Television], 1978. page number: url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/78406075 Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Shūjirō Shimada 島田修二郎, and Terukazu Akiyama 秋山光和. Zaigai Nihon no shihō [在外日本の至宝 = Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections, vol. 8 ]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 78, p. 147 url: Zenzo Shimizu, "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," Ars Buddhica [佛教藝術], no. 126 (Sept. 1979), part I, pp. 67–88. page number: Reproduced: p. 73, fig. 24 url: Roukes, Nicholas. Masters of Wood Sculpture. New York: Watson-Guptill Publishers, 1980. page number: Reproduced: p. 15 url: Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 42–43, no. 20 url: Roberts, Laurance. "To See Japanese Art, Go to Tokyo, or Boston, or Baltimore, or Seattle." Art News, vol. 80, no. 7 (Sept. 1981). page number: Reproduced: p. 112 url: Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: no. 61 url: Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 190–191 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15 url: Liebson, Milt. Direct Wood Sculpture: Techniques, Innovation, Creativity. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2001. page number: p. 15 url: Ulak, James, T. "Uncomfortable Realites: Reflecting on Sherman Lee's Hunches," Orientations, vol. 36, no. 1 (Jan/Feb. 2005), pp. 78-79. page number: Reproduced: p. 78 url: Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 38 url: Ulak, James T. "The Alchemy of Selection: Lee and the Japanese Collection," Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009), pp. 41–47. page number: Reproduced: p. 41, fig. 1 url: Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art - Director's choice. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2012. page number: Reproduced: pp. 26–27 url: "Reopening of the Asian Galleries at The Cleveland Museum of Art: An Interview with David Franklin." Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, vol. 44, no. 8 (November/December 2013): pp. 60–63. page number: Reproduced: p. 63 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 30 url: Dobbins, James C. Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 199–200, fig. 85 url: --- IMAGES