id: 157544 accession number: 1994.77.b share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.77.b updated: Manjusuri and Sea Turtle, 1989. Oda Mayumi (Japanese, b. 1941). One of a diptych of color screenprints; irregular: 97.5 x 65.5 cm (38 3/8 x 25 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 1994.77.b © Oda Mayumi title: Manjusuri and Sea Turtle title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1989 creation date earliest: 1989 creation date latest: 1989 current location: creditline: Gift of the Artist copyright: © Oda Mayumi --- culture: Japan, Heisei period (1989-2019) technique: One of a diptych of color screenprints department: Prints collection: PR - Screenprint type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Oda Mayumi (Japanese, b. 1941) - artist --- measurements: Irregular: 97.5 x 65.5 cm (38 3/8 x 25 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: East Meets West: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints opening date: 2000-03-19T00:00:00 East Meets West: Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000). title: Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235 opening date: 2022-04-08T04:00:00 Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005). --- PROVENANCE Mayumi Oda [b. 1941], Sausalito, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1989–94 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1994– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Japanese term for substituting an unexpected figure for a conventional one is mitate (見立), or “stand-in.” Oda Mayumi applies the device, popular in ukiyo-e prints of the Edo period (1615–1868), to Monju (Manjushri in Sanskrit), a bodhisattva—a being among those considered enlightened in Buddhism—who symbolizes wisdom. One form of this bodhisattva depicts him as a child with his hair in knots. Oda’s Monju is instead a woman with her hair in a similar style, who also holds a nyoi (如意), a staff used by Buddhist clergy when delivering formal lectures. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES