id: 148350 accession number: 1975.65 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.65 updated: 2025-03-19 12:50:25.736000 En no Gyōja, 1200s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333). Wood; average: 74.9 cm (29 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1975.65 title: En no Gyōja title in original language: 役行者像 series: series in original language: creation date: 1200s creation date earliest: 1200 creation date latest: 1299 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333) technique: wood department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Average: 74.9 cm (29 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1975 opening date: 1976-02-03T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976). title: 日本の仏教を築いた人びと: その肖像と書 (Those Who Built Japanese Buddhism: Portraits and Calligraphy) opening date: 1981-04-29T04:00:00 日本の仏教を築いた人びと: その肖像と書 (Those Who Built Japanese Buddhism: Portraits and Calligraphy). Nara National Museum, Nara 630, Japan (organizer) (April 29-June 7, 1981). 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: Saints and Hermits - Peoples in Serenity Deep in the Nature opening date: 1999-04-27T00:00:00 Saints and Hermits - Peoples in Serenity Deep in the Nature. Nara National Museum, Nara 630, Japan (organizer) (April 27-May 30, 1999). title: The World of Enno-Gyoja and Shugendoh: Secret Treasures of Mountain Asceticism opening date: 1999-09-11T00:00:00 The World of Enno-Gyoja and Shugendoh: Secret Treasures of Mountain Asceticism. Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (September 11-October 17, 1999); Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (organizer) (November 2-December 5, 1999). 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). title: Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見 opening date: 2019-04-09T04:00:00 Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 30, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Buddhist Portraiture. Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan (April 29-June 7, 1981).', 'opening_date': '1981-04-29T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (R. Hosomi, Osaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1975 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1975- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 170223 Seated Zenki, 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Wood with pigment; overall: 30.5 cm (12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Art - Japanese/Korean and Lillian Kern Memorial Fund 2012.40.1 relationship: id: 170224 Seated Koki, 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Wood with pigment; overall: 28.5 cm (11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Art - Japanese/Korean and Lillian Kern Memorial Fund 2012.40.2 relationship: --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1975.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31–71. page number: Reproduced: p. 61; Mentioned: p. 71, no. 174. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624 Lee, Sherman E. “Varieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 4 (April 1977): 118–36. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 132–133, fig. 20 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159523 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 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]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1978. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 87, p. 151, color pl. 87 url: Shimizu Zenzō, "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," Bukkyō geijutsu [佛教藝術= Ars Buddhica] , no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67–88. page number: Reproduced: fig. 23, p. 73 url: Special Exhibition of Buddhist Portraiture [日本の仏教を築いた人びと : その肖像と書 = nihon no Bukkyō o kizuita hitobito : sono shōzō to sho] . Nara: Nara National Museum 奈良国立博物館, 1981. page number: cat. no. 20 url: Saints and hermits: people in serenity deep in nature: special exhibition [聖と隠者: 山水に心を澄ます人: 特别展 = Hijiri to inja: sansui ni kokoro o sumasu hitobito: tokubetsuten]. Nara: Nara National Museum 奈良国立博物館, 1999. page number: url: Ōsaka Shiritsu Bijutsukan, and Tōbu Bijutsukan. En no gyōja to shugendō no sekai: sangaku shinkō no hihō: En no gyōja Shinpen Daibosatsu 1300-nen onki kinen [役行者と修験道の世界: 山岳信仰の秘宝: 役行者神變大菩薩 1300年遠忌記念 = The World of Enno-Gyoja and Shugendoh: Secret Treasures of Mountain Asceticism]. [Japan]: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 5, p. 10. 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: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.65/1975.65_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.65/1975.65_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.65/1975.65_full.tif