2014.140.1-2: Sanskrit Mandala of the Two Worlds (Shuji Ryōkai mandara): Womb World Mandala (Shuji Taizōkai mandara) and Diamond World Mandala (Shuji Kongōkai mandara)
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.140.1-2
- Title
- Sanskrit Mandala of the Two Worlds (Shuji Ryōkai mandara): Womb World Mandala (Shuji Taizōkai mandara) and Diamond World Mandala (Shuji Kongōkai mandara)
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Shuji Ryōkai mandara
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- hanging scroll, painting
- Date
- 15th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Muromachi period, 1392-1568
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/351685
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Pair of hanging scrolls; gold on indigo-dyed paper
- Dimensions
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overall (including mounting, cord and roller ends): 2014.140.1: 122 x 62 cm (48 1/16 x 24 7/16 in.)
overall (including mounting, cord and roller ends): 2014.140.2: 122 x 63.5 cm (48 1/16 x 25 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Mika Gallery, New York, (by 2004)], sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA, (2004-2014), gift from Sylvan Barnet and bequest from William Burto; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2014.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto in honor of Edwin and Fumiko Cranston
- Accession Year
- 2014
- Object Number
- 2014.140.1-2
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- A Woman of Parts: In Conversation with Mika, Impressions, Japanese Art Society of America (Lexington, 2024), no. 45, part one of a double issue, p. 157, figs. 19a, b
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