- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1931.9
- People
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Attributed to Kaikei (active c. 1183-1236)
- Title
- Left Hand of a Colossal Amida Buddha
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Work Type
- sculpture
- Date
- first quarter 13th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Kamakura period, 1185-1333
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/208836
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Wood with traces of lacquer, polychromy, and gilding
- Dimensions
- L. 66.7 cm (26 1/4 in.)
- Provenance
- Ex-Tamai Collection, Nara
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
- Accession Year
- 1931
- Object Number
- 1931.9
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- From the central deity of an Amida triad originally installed at Shin-Daibutsu-ji Temple in Iga, Mie Prefecture.
- Publication History
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Iwata Shigeki, "A Wooden Buddha Hand in the Collection of Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University: On its Probable Provenance from the Main Worship Figure of Shin-Daibutsu-ji Temple in Iga", MUSEUM, Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo, Japan, February 2004), No. 588, color plates 1-2 and p.7, figs. 1-4
Priest Chōgen and the Rebuilding of Tōdaiji: the Kamakura Era, an Age of Artistic Revival and Innovation (Daikanjin Chōgen: Tōdaiji no Kamakura fukkō to arata na bi no sōshutsu), exh. cat., Nara National Museum (Nara, Japan, 2006), cat. no. 105
Francesca Herndon-Consagra, Reflections of the Buddha, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO, 2011-2012), p. 3 (installation image); p. 40, no. 2
The Buddhist Master Sculptor Kaikei: Timeless Beauty from the Kamakura Period, exh. cat., Nara National Museum (Nara, 2017), p. 152, ill.
- Exhibition History
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Chogen, Nara National Museum, Nara, 04/15/2006 - 05/28/2006
Reflections of the Buddha, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 09/09/2011 - 03/10/2012
32Q: 2740 Buddhist II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/02/2016 - 09/10/2019
32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022
- Subjects and Contexts
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Iconic Works
Collection Highlights
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