1941.267: Daiitoku Myō-ō (The Great Majestic One, Yamantaka) Riding a Bull into the Sea: One of the Five Great Wisdom Kings or Godai Myō-ō (Vidyarajas)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1941.267

Title

Daiitoku Myō-ō (The Great Majestic One, Yamantaka) Riding a Bull into the Sea: One of the Five Great Wisdom Kings or Godai Myō-ō (Vidyarajas)

Other Titles

Transliterated Title: Vidyarajas (Godai Myō-ō): Yamantaka (Daiitoku Myō-ō)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

Early Edo period, early 17th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/204335

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hand-colored woodblock print mounted as an album leaf; ink, colors, and gold pigment on paper

Dimensions

sight: 47.4 x 26.6 cm (18 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Horace M. Swope Bequest Fund

Accession Year

1941

Object Number

1941.267

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Usher P. Coolidge, Religious Wood-Block Prints of the Far East: An Exhibition of Chinese, Korean and Japanese Religious Wood-Block Prints Dating from the Seventh to the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, October to November, 1948., exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), Cat. No. 26, p. 14 (not illustrated)
• John M. Rosenfield and Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1979), Cat. No. 23, pp. 97-99

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