The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 27, 2026

A hanging scroll depicts Fish Basket Kannon as a barefoot woman with light skin tone and dark hair. Wearing flowing cream-colored robes, she holds a woven basket containing greenery and small fish. She stands within a faint, almond-shaped mandorla. Above her, vertical columns of Japanese calligraphy and red seals fill the composition. Patterned gold fabric borders the scroll's top and bottom edges.

Fish Basket Kannon (Gyoran Kannon)

1400s

attributed to Bokkei Saiyo

(Japanese, 1415–1473)
calligraphy by

Ikkyū Sōjun

(Japanese, 1394–1481)
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Mounted: 197.2 x 37.8 cm (77 5/8 x 14 7/8 in.); Painting: 118.8 x 36 cm (46 3/4 x 14 3/16 in.)
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.465
Location: Not on view
  • ?–2015
    George Gund III [1937–2013], bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2015–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.465