1985.375: 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)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.375
- People
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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
- manuscript page, painting
- 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
- Permissions
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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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