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Guardian Figure
1000s
(794–1185)
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
- ?–1969(Yasunosuke Ogiwara, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1969–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Pacific Cultures, Department of Fine Arts, Division of Pacific Cultures. San Francisco: Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Comparable Material. Reproduced: pl. A, p. 14“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.” Archives of Asian Art 24 (1970–1971): 86–117. Mentioned: pp. 87, 108; Reproduced: p. 88, fig. 7 www.jstor.orgLee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (1970): 2–50. Mentioned: no. 220, p. 51; Reproduced: no. 220, p. 34 www.jstor.orgShimizu Zenzō, "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," Bukkyō geijutsu [佛教藝術= Ars Buddhica] , no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67–88. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 70, fig. 11Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 22–23, no. 7
- One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).Wood Sculpture of the Heian Period in Commemoration of the Founding of the Institute. National Institute of Research on Important Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan (1967).
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