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Portrait of the Mother of Hotto Kokushi

Portrait of the Mother of Hotto Kokushi

1680
(1615-1868)
wood with polychromy and inlaid crystal and stone eyes
Overall: 60.3 cm (23 3/4 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1970.68
Location: not on view

Description

This is an imaginary portrait of the mother of the Zen master Hottō Enmyō Kokushi (1203–1298), whose sculptural portrait (1970.67) can be seen in gallery 235B. That image was carved soon after the master's death. His mother's image, however, was completed several hundred years later, so the likeness is doubtful.
  • Myoshin-ji, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
    ?-1970
    (Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1970-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Kurata, Osamu 蔵田蔵. Kumano 熊野. Tōkyō: Kodansha, 1968. Reproduced: p. 60, illus. 65
    Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1970.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 58, no. 2, 1971, pp. 22–71. Mentioned: no. 169 www.jstor.org
    Lee, Sherman E. “Varieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 64, no. 4, 1977, pp. 118–136. Reproduced: pp. 129, fig. 13 www.jstor.org
    Zenzo Shimizu, "Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada," Ars Buddhica 佛教藝術, no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67-88. Reproduced: fig. 25
  • Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).
    Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).
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