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Kannon

Date: c. 1868–1912
Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; inscription in gold ink on silk
Culture: Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department: Japanese Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon in Japanese) stands with each of his feet upon a lotus blossom. The Buddha Amitabha (Amida in Japanese) appears in his headdress. The text written in golden characters attached to the top of the painting is a portion of a religious text extolling the virtues of the bodhisattva. The painter was inspired by Buddhist paintings of the Korean Goreyo period (918–1392); he attempted to reproduce the diaphanous shawl sometimes seen in such early works.

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