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Guardian Figure

Guardian Figure

1000s
(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: not on view
  • (Yasunosuke Ogiwara)
  • 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
  • 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
    Cleveland Museum of Art, 1970: Year in Review 1969.
    Tokyo, National Institute of Research on Important Cultural Properties, 1967: Wood Sculpture of the Heian Period in Commemoration of the Founding of the Institute.
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