Artist
Kaikei
(快慶; fl. ca. 1183–1223)
Catalogue information
Kamakura period, early 13th century
Lacquered, polychromed, and gilded Japanese cypress (hinoki) with kirikane and inlaid crystal eyes
H. 51.5 cm (20 1/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Shōrenin, Kyoto
Literature
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts 1969, no. 18
; 1969
Masterpieces of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
Murase 1975, no. 7
; 1975
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Shimizu Zenzō 1979, no. 113, fig. 115, p. 96
; 1979
“Amerika ∙ Kanada ni aru Nihon chōkoku (2)” (Japanese sculptures in America and Canada, 2). Bukkyō geijutsu / Ars Buddhica, no. 127 (November).
Kurata Bunsaku 1980, no. 70
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; 1985
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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 80
; 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.
Avitabile 1990, no. 3
; 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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[Editors]. Mikkyō jiin to butsuzō (Esoteric Buddhist temples and sculpture). Heian no kenchiku, chōkoku (Architecture and sculpture of the Heian period), vol. 1. Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Survey of Japanese art), 5. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
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; 1995
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; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 14.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 553 in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.