id:			150855
accession number:	1982.26
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.26
updated:		2023-04-23 11:15:57.948000

Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha, 1700s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; painting only: 59.2 x 22.1 cm (23 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.); including mounting: 126.4 x 33 cm (49 3/4 x 13 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.26

title:				Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha
title in original language:	鬼の念仏図
series:				
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1799
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Painting only: 59.2 x 22.1 cm (23 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.); Including mounting: 126.4 x 33 cm (49 3/4 x 13 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Folk Traditions in Japanese Art
	opening date:   1978-09-20T04:00:00
	<i>Folk Traditions in Japanese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 20-October 29, 1978).

	title:		The Year in Review for 1982
	opening date:   1983-01-05T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1982</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).

	title:		Images of the Mind
	opening date:   1987-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 13, 2015).

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PROVENANCE

	(Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ? at least by 1978–1982
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1982–
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wall description:
Images like this one that depicts a demon in the guise of an itinerant monk intoning the name of the Buddha are called Otsu-e, or "Otsu paintings." Otsu-e were made as souvenirs for travelers passing through the station of Otsu along the Tokaido, the route stretching from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto. Realized through a combination of woodblock printing, rapid brushstrokes, embellishment with color and gold pigments by stencil or by hand, the earliest Otsu-e, produced in the 17th century, were Buddhist and Shinto icons. Later images included figures popular from Kabuki plays, as well as scenes illustrating parables.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ono, Tadashige 小野忠重. "On Ōtsu-e 大津絵考." <em>Kobijutsu </em>古美術 March 1973, no. 33, pp. 46–66.
	page number: 	Reproduced: color plate 2
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	Hauge, Victor, and Takako Hauge.<em> Folk Traditions in Japanese Art</em>. Washington: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1978.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 22, pp. 56, 58
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	Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 70, no. 1 (1983): 3–55.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 121, p. 54; Reproduced: no. 121, p. 46
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159799

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Images of the Mind.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
	page number: 	Reproduced: [p. 11]
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