id:			86105
accession number:	2015.508
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.508
updated:		2023-03-20 14:13:58.271000

Sacred Name of Tenjin, 1500s. Sakugen Shūryō  (Japanese, 1501–1579). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; overall: 105.4 x 18.4 cm (41 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.508

title:				Sacred Name of Tenjin
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			1500s
creation date earliest:		1500
creation date latest:		1599
current location:		
creditline:			Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Calligraphy
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Sakugen Shūryō  (Japanese, 1501–1579)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 105.4 x 18.4 cm (41 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed: signature unread
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	inscription:	Sealed: Sakugen
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見
	opening date:   2019-04-09T04:00:00
	<i>Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道－日本美術における神性の発見</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 30, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–2015
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2015–
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wall description:
The story emerged in the early 1300s that the kami Tenjin had traveled to China and achieved enlightenment under a famous Buddhist meditation master. Paintings of the subject as well as written invocations of Tenjin’s name were highly valued by the monks of Japan’s Zen Buddhist communities, to which an invocation of Tenjin’s name brushed by Zen monk Sakugen Shūryō attests. Sakugen was both a poet and an official envoy to Ming China in the 1500s. Creating calligraphies of deities’ names was akin to painting religious icons.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Vilbar, Sinéad, and Kevin Gray Carr. <em>Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 110-113, no. 45
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