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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.70
People
Attributed to Prince Son'en, Japanese (1298 - 1356)
Title
Sample Certificate of a Monk's Ordination (Enryaku-ji kaichō)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Enryaku-ji kaichō
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
handscroll
Date
Nambokuchō period, dated 1348
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Nambokuchō period, 1333-1392
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/202597

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Handscroll; ink, gold and silver on paper, from Enryaku-ji, Mount Hiei
Dimensions
text only: H. 32 x W. 168 cm (12 5/8 x 66 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: date given by text: 1348; two colophons, one dated 1501

Acquisition and Rights

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 Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.70
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 35 / pp. 112-113 (and color plate VI)
  • Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield, Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, 8th-19th Century, exh. cat., Asia Society Galleries (New York, NY, 1984), Cat. No. 026 / p. 83 and color photo on p. 21
  • Anne Nishimura Morse and Samuel Crowell Morse, Object as Insight: Japanese Buddhist Art & Ritual, exh. cat., Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY, 1995), pp. 70-71, cat. 24

Verification Level

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