- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1973.66
- People
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Monk Ryūyū, Japanese (active late 14th-early 15th c.)
- Title
- Section from a Buddhist Cosmology (Nihon koku narabini Shumi shoten zu) with text copied by Monk Ryūi
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Nihon koku narabini Shumi shoten zu
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- handscroll
- Date
- Muromachi period (1402)
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Muromachi period, 1392-1568
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/202319
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- H. 29.2 x W. 723.9 cm (11 1/2 x 285 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: "Sō Ryūi hitsu"; "Sō Ryūyū hitsu"; date: "Ōei 9" (1402)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Hofer Collection of the Printed and Graphic Arts of Asia in honor of Professor and Mrs. John M. Rosenfield
- Accession Year
- 1973
- Object Number
- 1973.66
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko Cranston, and Edwin A. Cranston, The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature: Selections from the Hofer and Hyde Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), Cat. No. 33 / pp. 104-109
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. 55, p. 54
Fumihiko Sueki, Nihon shisōshi no shatei, Keibunsha (Tokyo, 2017), Frontispiece, pp. 69-74, figs. 1-5
D. Max Moerman, The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, 2021), pp. 64-76, figs. 2.5-2.14
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