Zaō Gongen

Cleveland Museum of Art

Zaō Gongen

Date
1100s
Medium
Gilt bronze with repoussé and incised details
Culture
Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
Department
Japanese Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
153343

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Zaō Gongen is the deity of Mount Kinpu, in the Yoshino Mountains south of Nara. This fragment is from a votive mirror called a kakebotoke with metal fittings at the top through which a cord could be used to hang it. This votive mirror would have been hung in a temple or shrine.

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Credit line
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance
?–1986: (Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1986–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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