2014.153: Printed Images (inbutsu) of Buddha Amitabha (Amida), from Jōruri-ji, Kyoto

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2014.153

Title

Printed Images (inbutsu) of Buddha Amitabha (Amida), from Jōruri-ji, Kyoto

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

11th-12th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan, Kyoto Metropolitan Area, Kyōto

Period

Heian period, Late, 898-1185

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/70132

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Single-sheet Buddhist woodblock print; ink on paper

Dimensions

print image proper (sight): H. 44.3 x W. 32.8 cm (17 7/16 x 12 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Fusao Komiya, Tokyo, (by second half 1960s)], sold; to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA, (second half 1960s-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

2014.153

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 84-85, cat. 20
• Halle O’Neal, "Marking Death: Stamped Buddhas and Reused Letters in 13th-Century Japan", Ars Orientalis (2022), vol. 52, pp. 16-17, fig. 4

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

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