The Burke Collection
Aizen Mandala (愛染曼荼羅)
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17-1

Catalogue information

Late Heian period, 1107

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

58.4 x 53.4 cm (23 x 21 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Shōren-in, Kyoto

Literature

Yanagisawa Taka 1965, pt. 1, fig. 3 (detail)
Yanagisawa Taka
1965
“Shōren’in denrai no hakubyō Kongōkai mandara shoson zuyō” (An ink-drawing scroll representing the Vajradhatu-Mandala images in the Shōren’in Temple). Bijutsu kenkyū, no. 241 (July): 58–80 (pt. 1); no. 242 (September): 93–100 (pt. 2).

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Rosenfield and ten Grotenhuis 1979, no. 19
Rosenfield, John M., and Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
1979
Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.

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Yanagisawa Taka 1980, no. 90
Yanagisawa Taka
1980
[Editor]. Bukkyō kaiga (Buddhist painting). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 1. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Shinbo Tōru 1985, pls. 130–32
Shinbo Tōru
1985
Besson mandara (Mandalas of individual deities). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 1
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 10
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Murase 1992, p. 71
Murase, Miyeko
1992
Il Giappone. Storia universale dell’arte: La civiltà dell’Oriente. Turin: UTET.

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Goepper 1993, pp. 71–72
Goepper, Roger
1993
Aizen-Myōō: The Esoteric King of Lust; An Iconological Study. Artibus Asiae, Supplementum, 39. Zurich: Artibus Asiae and Museum Rietberg Zurich.

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Nedachi Kensuke 1997, figs. 32 (detail), 118
Nedachi Kensuke
1997
Aizen Myōō zō (Images of Aizen Myōō). Nihon no bijutsu (Arts of Japan), 376. Tokyo: Shibundō.

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ten Grotenhuis 1999, fig. 71
ten Grotenhuis, Elizabeth
1999
Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

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Murase 2000, no. 10.
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 17 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D17-1
reverse
D17-1
D17-2

Text

[upper right of scroll] red, wrathful; [top center]: face color, flesh white; Miroku; [middle center] red; [lower center] white, Kannon; [top left] red

[on reverse, from upper right to lower left] Daishō kongō: first time this is found in a scripture; Kusari; Is it Enma?; This is a so-called Ten [Deva]; Aizen Ō Mandala; Copied on the fifth day of the third month of 1107 from a model owned by Sanmai Ajari Ryōyū, who had inherited it from his teacher, Ōhara Sōzu Chōen [1016–1081]; kaō