The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Zaō Gongen
1100s
(794–1185)
Overall: 25.8 x 17.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 in.)
Location: not on view
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This votive mirror would have been hung in a temple or shrine.Description
Zaō Gongen is the deity of Mount Kinpu, in the Yoshino Mountains south of Nara. This fragment is from a votive mirror called a kakebotoke with metal fittings at the top through which a cord could be used to hang it.- ?-1986(Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1986-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 74, no. 2, 1987, pp. 38–79. Reproduced: fig. 237, p. 50; Mentioned: p. 79 www.jstor.org“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 1987.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 41, 1988, pp. 95–110. Reproduced: fig. 10, p. 98 www.jstor.orgVilbar, Sinéad, and Kevin Gray Carr. Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 186-187, no. 75
- Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art 神道-日本美術における神性の発見. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 9-June 30, 2019).Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1986.47