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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2014.142
Title
Kasuga Shrine Mandala (Kasuga miya mandara)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Kasuga Miya mandara
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
c. 1300
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Kamakura period, 1185-1333
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/58263

Location

Location
Level 2, Room 2740, Buddhist Art, The Efflorescence of East Asian and Buddhist Art
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 79.1 x W. 28.2 cm (31 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)
overall (including mounting, cord and roller ends): H. 160.5 x W. 48 cm (63 3/16 x 18 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[London Gallery, Tokyo, (by 1986)], sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA, (1986-2014), 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 Anne Rose Kitagawa
Accession Year
2014
Object Number
2014.142
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, "The Kasuga Deer Mandala Hunt", Orientations, Orientations Magazine Ltd. (Hong Kong, January/February 2011), vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 64-72, p. 68, fig. 6
  • Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, 1999), pls. 13-17
  • London Gallery, Ltd. and Ôkura Shûkokan, Buddha's Smile: Masterpieces of Japanese Buddhist Art, exh. cat., London Gallery, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, 2000), p. 200-201, cat. 111
  • John Rosenfield, "Escaping Deadly Strife in the Art World: The Barnet and Burto Collection", Orientations, Orientations Magazine Ltd. (Hong Kong, October 2002), vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 45-53, p. 48, fig. 3
  • Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, "Thinking Back, Looking Closely: Reflections on Collecting Japanese Art", Oriental Art, Oriental Art Magazine (London, 2002), vol. XLVIII, no. 2, pp.43-54, p. 49, fig. 5
  • 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. 90-92, cat. 23
  • Anne Rose Kitagawa and Yukio Lippit, Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2004), p. 7, ill. opp. p.6, fig. 5

Exhibition History

  • Marks of Enlightenment, Traces of Devotion: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/23/2004 - 04/17/2005
  • 32Q: 2740 Buddhist II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/21/2015 - 12/09/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2024 - 12/02/2024

Verification Level

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