id: 149368 accession number: 1978.3.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.3.1 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:09.866000 Shinto Deity, 900s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Wood, with traces of polychromy; overall: 50.3 x 38.1 cm (19 13/16 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.3.1 title: Shinto Deity title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 900s creation date earliest: 900 creation date latest: 999 current location: creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Heian period (794–1185) technique: wood, with traces of polychromy department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 50.3 x 38.1 cm (19 13/16 x 15 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1978 opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). 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 * Shinzō. Setsu Gatodo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan (1977). * 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). --- PROVENANCE (Setsu Gatoda Co., Ltd.) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Traces of pigment on the surface of this sculpture indicate it was once painted. digital description: wall description: These sculptures represent kami, the name for deities associated with the Japanese religious tradition known as Shinto. They are said to have originally been created for the Usa Hachiman shrine in Oita on the island of Kyushu. Usa Hachiman Shrine houses four main kami: Hime Okami, who assists those engaged in agriculture and sea travel; the legendary 5th-century emperor Ojin deified as the kami Hachiman; Empress Jingu; and the kami of Mount Kawara, who aids copper miners. The identities of these two figures are unknown, but they belong to a larger group containing at least three other deities. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Setsu Gatōdō 瀬津雅陶堂 and Shun Etō 衛藤駿. Shinzō. Tokyo: Setsu Gatodo Co., Ltd., 1977. page number: Reproduced: cat. nos. 3, 4 url: 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: cat. no. 84, p. 149; Reproduced:pl. 84 url: Sasaki, Kōzō 佐々木剛三 and Hideo Okumura 奧村秀雄. Shintō no bijutsu: Kasuga, Hie, Kumano 神道の美術 : 春日, 日吉, 熊野. Tōkyō: Gakushū Kenkyūsha, 1979. page number: Reproduced: fig. 51 url: Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 66, no. 1, 1979, pp. 3–47. page number: Reproduced: no. 159, p. 36; Mentioned: pp. 4 and 47 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159613 Zenzo Shimizu 清水善三. "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," Ars Buddhica 佛教藝術, no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67-88. page number: Reproduced: fig. 19, 20 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: cat. no. 6 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: Reproduced: pp. 184-185 url: Murase, Miyeko 村瀬, 実恵子. Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Reproduced: fig. 16, p. 44 url: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/153737 May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: no. 87, pp. 81-82; Mentioned p. 119 url: Gabriel, Theodore P. C., and Ron Geaves. --Isms: Understanding Religion. New York, NY: Universe, 2007. page number: p. 127 url: Vilbar, Sinéad, and Kevin Gray Carr. Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 152-1577, nos. 57 and 62 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.3.1/1978.3.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.3.1/1978.3.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.3.1/1978.3.1_full.tif