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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.156
Title
Amulet with Buddhist Icons (Kokonoe no mamori)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Kokonoe no mamori
Classification
Prints
Work Type
handscroll
Date
early 17th-late 19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/49063

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Buddhist woodblock-printed handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
print image proper: H. 7.6 x W. 1070 cm (3 x 421 1/4 in.)
unrolled overall (including mounting and roller ends): H. 10 x W. 1083.8 cm (3 15/16 x 426 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Yasuhiro Iguchi, Brookline, MA, (by ca. 1970), gift; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA, (ca. 1970-2014), 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
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.156
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Larry David Perkins, Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art through the Ages, exh. cat., Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art (Gainesville, FL, 2000), p. 34, fig. 39
  • Miyeko Murase and Masako Watanabe, The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2002), pp. 86-89, cat. 22

Exhibition History

  • Evocative Creatures: Animal Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/19/2005 - 06/11/2006

Verification Level

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