id:			152281
accession number:	1985.16
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.16
updated:		2022-10-29 15:35:27.929000

Votive Hanging with Image of Kannon (Kannon Kakebotoke), mid- to late 1300s. Japan, Nanbokuchō period (1336-92). Bronze with repoussé and etching; diameter: 52.5 cm (20 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1985.16

title:				Votive Hanging with Image of Kannon (Kannon Kakebotoke)
title in original language:	観音懸仏
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			mid- to late 1300s
creation date earliest:		1336
creation date latest:		1392
current location:		
creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Nanbokuchō period (1336-92)
technique:	Bronze with repoussé and etching
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Sculpture
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

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measurements: Diameter: 52.5 cm (20 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review for 1984
	opening date:   1985-04-03T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1984</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).

	title:		Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018
	opening date:   2017-07-15T04:00:00
	<i>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1985: Year in Review 1984.

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PROVENANCE

	(Setsu Gatoda Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985-
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fun fact: 
Here the deity Kannon sits on a lotus flower, a symbol of purity and enlightenment.

digital description: 
<em>Kakebotoke</em> (literally “hanging Buddhist deities”) like this appeared from the latter part of the Heian period. They often hung on the doors of a Shinto shrine hall to indicate the Buddhist manifestation of the god, or kami, inside, or along the eaves of a Buddhist temple hall to indicate the Buddhist deity celebrated there.

wall description: 
A gilt repoussé image of the bodhisattva Kannon, created by hammering the metal from the back, is fixed to a bronze disk with tiny nails. Lion-faced fasteners join it to metal loops once strung with cord. <em>Kakebotoke</em> (literally “hanging Buddhist deities”) like this often hung on Shinto shrine doors to indicate the Buddhist manifestation of the god, or kami, inside. They were also hung along the eaves of a Buddhist temple to indicate the Buddhist deity celebrated there.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cunningham, Michael R. <em>Masterworks of Asian art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 186 - 187
	url:		

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IMAGES

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