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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1931.9
People
Attributed to Kaikei (active c. 1183-1236)
Title
Left Hand of a Colossal Amida Buddha
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
first quarter 13th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Kamakura period, 1185-1333
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/208836

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood with traces of lacquer, polychromy, and gilding
Dimensions
L. 66.7 cm (26 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Ex-Tamai Collection, Nara

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt
Accession Year
1931
Object Number
1931.9
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
From the central deity of an Amida triad originally installed at Shin-Daibutsu-ji Temple in Iga, Mie Prefecture.

Publication History

  • Iwata Shigeki, "A Wooden Buddha Hand in the Collection of Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University: On its Probable Provenance from the Main Worship Figure of Shin-Daibutsu-ji Temple in Iga", MUSEUM, Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo, Japan, February 2004), No. 588, color plates 1-2 and p.7, figs. 1-4
  • Priest Chōgen and the Rebuilding of Tōdaiji: the Kamakura Era, an Age of Artistic Revival and Innovation (Daikanjin Chōgen: Tōdaiji no Kamakura fukkō to arata na bi no sōshutsu), exh. cat., Nara National Museum (Nara, Japan, 2006), cat. no. 105
  • Francesca Herndon-Consagra, Reflections of the Buddha, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, MO, 2011-2012), p. 3 (installation image); p. 40, no. 2
  • The Buddhist Master Sculptor Kaikei: Timeless Beauty from the Kamakura Period, exh. cat., Nara National Museum (Nara, 2017), p. 152, ill.
  • Nara National Museum, ed., Busshi Kaikei no kenkyū. (The Complete Works of Kaikei.), Shibunkaku (Kyoto, 2023), p. 137, fig. 14-2

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Iconic Works

Verification Level

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