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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.375
People
Attributed to Takuma Tametō, Japanese (Kyushu active circa 1132 - 1174)
Title
Seated Bodhisattva Vajrapuspâ (Kongōke Bosatsu), from a notebook depicting the Diamond World Mandala (Kongōkai Mandara), from a book once housed at Mount Kōya (Wakayama prefecture) and then later in the temple Ganjō-ji (Kumamoto prefecture)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Mandala (Kongōkai mandara): Vajrapuspâ (Kongōke Bosatsu)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, manuscript page
Date
Late Heian period, mid 12th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Heian period, Late, 898-1185
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/210605

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Page from a book now mounted as an album leaf; ink and colors on paper
Dimensions
25 x 13.8 cm (9 13/16 x 5 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.375
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John M. Rosenfield, Japanese Arts of the Heian Period: 794-1185, Asia Society Inc. (New York, 1968), Plate 5b / pp. 14 & 108-109
  • 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. 25 / pp. 84-85

Exhibition History

  • Masterworks of East Asian Painting, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/03/1995 - 06/09/1996
  • Japanese Art of the Heian Period (794-1185), Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 06/06/2002 - 07/05/2002

Verification Level

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