id:			150187
accession number:	1981.1.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.1.b
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Batō (Horse-Headed) Kannon (base), Edo Period (base only). Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Wood; overall: 110.6 cm (43 9/16 in.); base: 28 cm (11 in.); figure: 82.6 cm (32 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1981.1.b

title:				Batō (Horse-Headed) Kannon (base)
title in original language:	馬頭観音像
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creation date:			Edo Period (base only)
creation date earliest:		1615
creation date latest:		1868
current location:		235A Japanese
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	wood
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 110.6 cm (43 9/16 in.); Base: 28 cm (11 in.); Figure: 82.6 cm (32 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1981
	opening date:   1982-02-17T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1981</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Hodarakuson-ji Temple, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
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	(Minoru Hosomi, Ōsaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1981
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1981–
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wall description:
Batō Kannon, or Hayagriva Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, is the “horse-headed” form of the bodhisattva of compassion, who presides over the realm of animals in the Buddhist Six Realms of Transmigration. A horse’s head appears in the hair of this sculpture to identify it. Bodhisattvas are beings who, though enlightened, choose to remain within the worlds of existence to help others. The six realms are heaven, hell, human, animal, hungry ghost, and <em>ashura</em>, or fierce supernatural entities.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1981.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 2 (February 1982): 39–82.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 134, pp. 39, 41, and 83; Reproduced: no. 134; back cover
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159758

	Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing.<em> Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 45
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