Cleveland Museum of Art
Welcoming Descent of Amida with Twenty-Five Bodhisattvas
- Date
- mid-1300s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, silver, and cut gold on silk
- Culture
- Japan, Nanbokuchō period (1336–92)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 676387
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting depicts the Buddha Amida arriving to escort a dying person to his Pure Land, or Western Paradise. He is attended by an entourage of 25 bodhisattvas, enlightened beings who are committed to serving others, many of whom provide orchestral accompaniment to herald the momentous occasion. The bodhisattva Kannon kneels, holding a lotus dais for the deceased to ride to their destination. One of the percussive instruments played by the bodhisattvas in the painting is called a paiban or hakuban in Japanese.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- by 1688–at least 1854: Seiryūzan Shōgon’in Jōchiji 清瀧山荘厳院浄智寺, Awa, Tokushima, Shikoku, Japan | Hosomi Ryo 細見良 [1901–1978], Osaka, Japan | Robert H. Ellsworth [1929–2014], New York, NY | March 29–30, 1996: (Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., New York, NY, March 29–30, 1996 sale, Lot 405, sold to Tajima Mitsuru of London Gallery) | 1996–2025: (London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 2025–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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