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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.267
Title
Daiitoku Myō-ō (The Great Majestic One, Yamantaka) Riding a Bull into the Sea: One of the Five Great Wisdom Kings or Godai Myō-ō (Vidyarajas)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Vidyarajas (Godai Myō-ō): Yamantaka (Daiitoku Myō-ō)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
Early Edo period, early 17th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204335

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hand-colored woodblock print mounted as an album leaf; ink, colors, and gold pigment on paper
Dimensions
sight: 47.4 x 26.6 cm (18 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Horace M. Swope Bequest Fund
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.267
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Usher P. Coolidge, Religious Wood-Block Prints of the Far East: An Exhibition of Chinese, Korean and Japanese Religious Wood-Block Prints Dating from the Seventh to the Nineteenth Century, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, October to November, 1948., exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1948), Cat. No. 26, p. 14 (not illustrated)
  • John M. Rosenfield and Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections, exh. cat., Asia Society Museum (New York, NY, 1979), Cat. No. 23, pp. 97-99

Verification Level

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