Images

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=DB71AD7103E967A6D6C226622FB5E43D73CE0F41166402E5C3B32D1CA0873B1F&s=21&se=1699825674&v=4&f=1969.130_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=889769FBF19C0E4018C54363C0018D05A2BD79C6A2BE91550E5A9EAEBB0522F5&s=21&se=1699825674&v=1&f=%5C1969.130_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=17BF5C8C931FB3B737C57116C76FDECE024E9DE29FE4378E38E585E0394CC0B6&s=21&se=1699825674&v=1&f=%5C1969.130det01_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=17BF5C8C931FB3B7CE8DF45394FEE2AF6B078CD3A9BAFB0F4B5DB6DB4331A61F&s=21&se=1699825674&v=1&f=%5C1969.130det02_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=17BF5C8C931FB3B7DD2ECBCEC87A0D8B82FB3592619A6CA000C596A8105C6802&s=21&se=1699825674&v=1&f=%5C1969.130det03_o2.jpg

https://piction.clevelandart.org/cma/ump.di?e=D3D5A44F6ADD027523DB31172AF63AED582048399347FFEC785F1FE5A37ED83D&s=21&se=1699825674&v=1&f=%5C1969.130det04_o2.jpg

Alternate Views

Sutra Repository

大般若経厨子

late 1100s

Japan, Heian period

(794-1185)

Lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork

Height: 160 cm (63 in.)

John L. Severance Fund 1969.130

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

The mate to this object is in the Nara National Museum in Japan.

Description

This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra. Two discs painted on the back have the sacred syllables representing the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Buddha Amida. Eight of the 16 benevolent but fierce looking deities who protect the text appear on the doors.

Video

Provenance

Kamigamosha [Kamigamo Shrine], Kyoto, Japan

Jinkō'in, Kyoto, Japan

?-1969

(Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1969-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 24, 1970, pp. 86–117. Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 88; Mentioned: p. 87 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 57, no. 1, 1970, pp. 2–50. Reproduced: no. 236, p. 35; Mentioned: p. 51 www.jstor.org

"New Oriental art galleries at Cleveland." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts. August 1970, Vol. 92, pp. 148-151. p. 149

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 371 archive.org

Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三. Zaigai bijutsu [在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994. Reproduced: pp. 223, 236, no. 134

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: pp. 188-189

May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Reproduced: no. 88, p. 82; Mentioned p. 119

Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. Reproduced: p. 27

Exhibition history

An Historical Reunion: Daihannyakyo Buddhist Tabernacles from The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Nara National Museum. Nara National Museum, Nara, Japan. (April 29-May 21, 2000). Exhibition of the CMA repository newly conserved through the Research Institute for Cultural Properties program with the Nara National Museum's repository.

Gallery 237 (Japanese and Korean Art). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 23, 2013-November 17, 2015)

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

The Past Century of Nara National Museum - From Preaching Scene of Shakyamuni to Picture Scroll of Kusamakura. Nara National Museum (organizer) (April 26-June 1, 1997).

Honoring Sherman Lee. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 28-August 30, 2009).

Cite this page

{{cite web|title=Sutra Repository|url=https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.130|year=late 1100s|access-date=02 July 2020|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Contact us

The information about this object, including provenance information, is based on historic information and may not be currently accurate or complete. Research on objects is an ongoing process, but the information about this object may not reflect the most current information available to CMA. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about this object, please email collectionsdata@clevelandart.org.

To request more information about this object, study images, or bibliography, contact the Ingalls Library Reference Desk.

Is something not working on this page? Please email help.website@clevelandart.org.

Request a digital file from Image Services that is not available through CC0, a detail image, or any image with a color bar. If you have questions about requesting an image, please email imageservices@clevelandart.org.

You are here:

Images

Sutra Repository

Sutra Repository

大般若経厨子

Japan, Heian period

Location

Download and Share

Fun Fact

Description

Video

Contact us