id: 167661 accession number: 2009.342 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.342 updated: 2023-09-27 11:03:30.245000 Shakyamuni Triad: Buddha Attended by Manjushri and Samantabhadra, late 1300s. China, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Set of three hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk; painting: 106.9 x 46.4 cm (42 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.); overall with knobs: 192 x 66.7 cm (75 9/16 x 26 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.342 title: Shakyamuni Triad: Buddha Attended by Manjushri and Samantabhadra title in original language: 釋迦三尊：釋迦摩尼與文殊菩薩普賢菩薩 series: series in original language: creation date: late 1300s creation date earliest: 1350 creation date latest: 1368 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) technique: Set of three hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: China - Yuan Dynasty type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Painting: 106.9 x 46.4 cm (42 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 192 x 66.7 cm (75 9/16 x 26 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c opening date: 2019-02-08T05:00:00 Taming Tigers and Releasing Dragons: Masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist Art – Chinese Gallery Rotation 240a, 241c. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 8-August 11, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main gallery rotation (Gallery 244), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11-July 7, 2015). --- PROVENANCE Reportedly from the Enman-in 円満院 located inside the Onjo-ji temple (also known as the Miidera temple) in Otsu City, Shiga prefecture, Japan date: before 1888–c. 1945 footnotes: citations: Private collection, Japan date: after 1945–c. 1985 footnotes: citations: Takashi Yanagi of Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, to Koichi Yanagi date: c. 1985–before 2009 footnotes: citations: (Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Art, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–2009 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2009– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This triptych is based on the Lotus Sutra, a Buddhist scripture that welcomes female worshippers. digital description: wall description: This triptych is a rare example of Yuan Buddhist painting. It depicts the historic Buddha Shakyamuni flanked by two attending bodhisattvas, Manjushri (the bodhisattva of wisdom, riding a lion) and Samantabhadra (the bodhisattva of universal virtue, riding an elephant). Below them are others seeking enlightenment: two disciples of the Buddha (Ananada and Kasyapa), two non-Chinese people, a boy with topknots, and a female worshiper.

The clouds above and around the divine beings form one scene that illustrates Shakyamuni’s sermon from the Lotus Sutra. This text became an important basis for Buddhist faith throughout East Asia and was central to the Mahayana school of Buddhism. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ōsaka Shiritsu Bijutsukan 大阪市立美術館. Sō Gen no bijutsu 宋元の美術. Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1980. page number: Reproduced: pl. 300 url: Fenorosa, Tenshin no mita Ōmi: Meiji 21-nen rinji zenkoku hōmotsu chōsa kara: tokubetsuten [フェノロサ・天心の見た近江 : 明治 21年臨時全国宝物調查から : 特别展]. Ōtsu-shi: Shiga Kenritsu Biwako Bunkakan, Heisei 16 [2004]. page number: p. 95 url: Sō Gen butsuga: kaikan 40-shūnen kinen tokubetsuten [宋元仏画: 開館 40周年記念特別展 = The 40th Anniversary Special Exhibition: Buddhist Paintings of Song and Yuan Dynasties]. Yokohama-shi: Kanagawa Kenritsu Rekishi Hakubutsukan [神奈川県立歴史博物館 = Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History], 2007. page number: Reproduced: p. 38, pl. 5 url: “Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2008-2009.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 60, 2010, pp. 95–159. page number: Reproduced: p. 109, no. 14 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40863712 Chung, Anita. "Re-emergence: New Chinese Galleries and Art Acquisitions of The Cleveland Museum of Art." Orientations vol 44 no. 8 (November/December 2013): 64-75. page number: Reproduced: pp. 68-69, fig. 5 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 196-200 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.342/2009.342_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.342/2009.342_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.342/2009.342_full.tif