Cleveland Museum of Art
Departure from Kashima
- Date
- 1336–92
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- Japan, Nanbokuchō period (1336–92)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 98252
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The kami Takemikazuchi from Kashima (in present-day Ibaraki Prefecture) departs on a white deer for Mount Mikasa in Nara, where he takes up residence. The five Kasuga kami are presented within a golden circle supported by the branches of a sakaki tree, from which trail five white paper streamers—indicating the purity and sacredness of the five shrine halls of the complex—as well as blossoming wisteria vines, a symbol of the Fujiwara family. The two figures walking along near the stag’s back legs are Nakatomi no Tokifū and his younger brother Hidetsura, who have followed Takemikazuchi and become priests of Kasuga Taisha.
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- Credit line
- The Worcester R. Warner Collection
- Provenance
- ?–1917: Purchased with funds from Worcester R. Warner [1846–1929] and Cornelia Blakemore Warner [1858–1947] by Langdon Warner [1881–1955], as agent of the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1917–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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