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Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Museum

Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha

1700s
Medium
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Painting only: 59.2 x 22.1 cm (23 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.); Including mounting: 126.4 x 33 cm (49 3/4 x 13 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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Provenance

Public
? at least by 1978–1982

(Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1982–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

(Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Exhibitions

Public
Images of the Mind

The Year in Review for 1982

Folk Traditions in Japanese Art

Source exhibition text

Folk Traditions in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 20-October 29, 1978). The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983). Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 13, 2015).

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Sourced Overview Evidence

Images like this one that depicts a demon in the guise of an itinerant monk intoning the name of the Buddha are called Otsu-e, or "Otsu paintings." Otsu-e were made as souvenirs for travelers passing through the station of Otsu along the Tokaido, the route stretching from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto. Realized through a combination of woodblock printing, rapid brushstrokes, embellishment with color and gold pigments by stencil or by hand, the earliest Otsu-e, produced in the 17th century, were Buddhist and Shinto icons. Later images included figures popular from Kabuki plays, as well as scenes illustrating parables.

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Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.

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