id:			155642
accession number:	1990.82
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.82
updated:		2023-03-22 10:01:03.339000

Taima Mandala, early 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333). Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk; image: 135.6 x 140.3 cm (53 3/8 x 55 1/4 in.); overall: 170.5 x 203.2 cm (67 1/8 x 80 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1990.82

title:				Taima Mandala
title in original language:	当麻曼荼羅図
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creation date:			early 1300s
creation date earliest:		1300
creation date latest:		1333
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Image: 135.6 x 140.3 cm (53 3/8 x 55 1/4 in.); Overall: 170.5 x 203.2 cm (67 1/8 x 80 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Notable Acquisitions
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).

	title:		Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation
	opening date:   2020-01-24T05:00:00
	<i>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 24-October 11, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Japanese Rotation (Gallery 119)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 16-October 16, 1998).

* <em>Japanese Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 23, 2013-July 21, 2014).

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PROVENANCE

	(Neston Ltd., Kowloon, Hong Kong, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1990
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1990-
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wall description:
This painting is a copy after an 8th-century woven mandala belonging to the temple Taimadera. The composition is based on a sacred text that describes the Buddha Shakyamuni’s explanation of Amida’s Pure Land to Queen Vaidehi, as well as his instructions to her on visual meditation upon the Pure Land. The Pure Land appears at the center of the painting. To the left is the story of Queen Vaidehi’s encounter with Shakyamuni, and to the right are the scenes she is given to visualize. The bottom illustrates the nine levels of birth that can be attained in the Pure Land.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cunningham, Michael R. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 139
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319

	Grotennuis, Elizabeth Ten. "Visions of a Transcendent Realm: Pure Land Images in the Cleveland Museum of Art." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 7 (1991): 274-300.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cover, p. 275-85; Mentioned: p. 274-287
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161334

	Cunningham, Michael R. <em>Masterworks of Asian art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 200 - 201
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IMAGES

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