id: 145415 accession number: 1970.67.c share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.67.c updated: 2025-05-20 11:16:46.046000 Portrait of the Zen Master Hotto Kokushi (right shoe), c. 1286. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Wood with hemp cloth, black lacquer, and iron clamps. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1970.67.c title: Portrait of the Zen Master Hotto Kokushi (right shoe) 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: 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