id:			153733
accession number:	1987.39
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.39
updated:		2025-07-01 11:07:06.174000

Iconographical Sketch (Zuzō) for the Benevolent Kings Sutra Mandala, 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 122.1 x 112.3 cm (48 1/16 x 44 3/16 in.); mounted: 203.2 x 137.1 cm (80 x 54 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1987.39

title:				Iconographical Sketch (Zuzō) for the Benevolent Kings Sutra Mandala
title in original language:	仁王経曼荼羅図像
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creation date:			1100s
creation date earliest:		1100
creation date latest:		1199
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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culture:	Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
technique:	Hanging scroll; ink on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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measurements: Image: 122.1 x 112.3 cm (48 1/16 x 44 3/16 in.); Mounted: 203.2 x 137.1 cm (80 x 54 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1987
	opening date:   1988-02-24T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).

	title:		Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1998-02-21T00:00:00
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

	title:		Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-01-15T00:00:00
	<i>Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

	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

* {'description': '<em>Main Japanese Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003-March 15, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-10-29T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1987
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1987–
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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 2 (1988): 30–71.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 205, pp. 32 and 71; Reproduced: no. 205, p. 48
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160017

	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara</em> [東洋絵画の精華: 特别展: クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 82, cat. no. 51
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	<em>Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>[クリーブランド美術館展: 名画でたどる日本の美= Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 4, p. 31.
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