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Source Description
The lid of this box has a fragment of an image representing the Pure Land of the Buddha Amida, and an interior decorated with lotus petals. The original, complete composition may have been a panel housed within a shrine cabinet, and used for meditation. An aversion to discarding sacred images likely led to the fragment’s incorporation into this small box.
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Document identity
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137126
label
Fragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise
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137126
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object
title
Fragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise
description
The lid of this box has a fragment of an image representing the Pure Land of the Buddha Amida, and an interior decorated with lotus petals. The original, complete composition may have been a panel housed within a shrine cabinet, and used for meditation. An aversion to discarding sacred images likely led to the fragment’s incorporation into this small box.
date
1100s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80031459
genreSpecific
Lacquer
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 2.6 x 7.8 cm (1 x 3 1/16 in.)
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Japan, Heian period (794–1185)
accession
1961.91
Source extras
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gold lacquer on wood
tombstone
Fragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise (阿弥陀仏浄土蒔絵手箱), 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Gold lacquer on wood; overall: 2.6 x 7.8 cm (1 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1961.91
titleInOriginalLanguage
阿弥陀仏浄土蒔絵手箱
collection
Japanese Art
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E.<em> Japanese Decorative Style</em>. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 14; Mentioned: p.15; cat.no. 6
citation
Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review 1961.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 48, no. 9 (November 1961): 219–251.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 55, p. 249
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 274
citation
Ragué, Beatrix von. “A Part of the Western Paradise.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 53, no. 1 (January 1966): 26–30.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 26–27, fig. 1
citation
Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉, ed. <em>Japanese Art in the West.</em> Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co., 1966.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 357; Reproduced: p. 264, pl. 308
citation
Rosenfield, John M. <em>Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794-1185</em>. [New York]: Asia Society, 1967.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 73 and 117, cat. no. 28
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 274
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 370
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 06:59:46.410000
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137126
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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gold lacquer on wood
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