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Mar 31, 2021

Guardian Figure

1000s

Japan, Heian period

(794–1185)

Wood with polychromy and kirikane (cut-gold)

Overall: 93.2 cm (36 11/16 in.); Figure: 78.1 cm (30 3/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1969.126

Location

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Provenance

(Yasunosuke Ogiwara)

Citations

Lee, Sherman E, Ursula Korneitchouk, Michael R Cunningham, Ursula Korneitchouk, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japan House Gallery, Japan Society (New York, N.Y.), and Japan House Gallery. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 22-23, no. 7

Exhibition history

Tokyo, National Institute of Research on Important Cultural Properties, 1967: Wood Sculpture of the Heian Period in Commemoration of the Founding of the Institute.

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970: Year in Review 1969.

Japan House Gallery, New York, 1981: One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

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