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Object Number

1928.184

Title

Pair of Shrine Doors Depicting Brahmâ (Bonten) Deva of the Sky and Indra (Taishakuten) Deva of the East, Two of the Twelve Deva Kings (Jūniten) with Attendants

Other Titles

Transliterated Title: Jūniten (Devas): Bonten (Brahmâ), Taishakuten (Indra)

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

Muromachi period, 15th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Muromachi period, 1392-1568

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/191516

Medium

Pair of wooden doors with polychromy and gold pigment over black lacquer

Dimensions

sight, total width of two doors: H. 131.5 x W. 109.3 cm (51 3/4 x 43 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt

Accession Year

1928

Object Number

1928.184

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

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Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 49, p. 48

Eugene Wang, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China, University of Washington Press (Seattle, 2005), n.p., Plate 13

Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/1995 - 06/09/1996

Paragons of Wisdom and Virtue: East Asian Figure Painting, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/15/1997 - 09/21/1997

• 1928.184.A

  Brahmâ (Bonten) Deva of the Sky with Attendant, One of a Pair of Shrine Doors Depicting Brahmâ and Indra (Taishakuten), Two of the Twelve Deva Kings (Jūniten) with Attendants

  Paintings
• 1928.184.B

  Indra (Taishakuten) Deva of the East with Attendant, One of a Pair of Shrine Doors Depicting Brahmâ (Bonten) and Indra, Two of the Twelve Deva Kings (Jūniten) with Attendants

  Paintings

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