Cleveland Museum of Art
Shōtoku Taishi at Sixteen
- Date
- 1400s-1500s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The 16-year-old prince regent Shōtoku Taishi, garbed in Buddhist vestments, bears an incense burner. He is flanked by two attendants; one carries religious texts in a box and the other holds a nyoi ceremonial Buddhist scepter. The two are sometimes identified as Shōtoku’s younger brother, Prince Eguri, and eldest son, Prince Yamashiro. Shōtoku has come to pray for his father, Emperor Yōmei (reigned 585–87), who is ill and on the point of death. Upon a miraculous recovery, the emperor accepted Buddhism. One name for Shōtoku is "Prince Stable Door."
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