Catalogue information
Late Heian period, late 10th–early 11th century
Polychromed keyaki (Zelkova serrata)
H. 125 cm (49 1/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Rishō Gokokuji, Wakayama; Haramoto Torao, Tokyo; Howard C. Hollis, New York
Literature
Ikawa Kazuko 1963, figs. 12–14
; 1963
“Chiten ni sasaerareta Bishamonten chōzō: Tobatsu Bishamonten zō ni tsuite no ichi kōsatsu” (Statues of Bishamonten supported by Chiten: Research on the Tobatsu Bishamonten). Bijutsu kenkyū, no. 229 (July): 53–73.
Mayuyama Junkichi 1966, no. 18
; 1966
[Editor]. Ōbei shūzō Nihon bijutsu zuroku (Japanese art in the West). Tokyo: Mayuyama Ryūsendō.
Rosenfield 1967, no. 3
; 1967
Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794–1185. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.
Murase 1975, no. 2
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mayuyama Junkichi 1976, no. 330
; 1976
Mayuyama, Seventy Years / Ryūsen shūhō, sōgyō shichijusshūnen kinen. 2 vols. Tokyo: Mayuyama Ryūsendō.
Shimizu Zenzō 1979, no. 117, fig. 119, p. 97
; 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. 57
; 1980
[Editor]. Chōkoku (Sculpture). Zaigai Nihon no shihō (Japanese art: Selections from Western collections), 8. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha.
Murase 2000, no. 9.
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 556 in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.