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{
    "localId": "153343",
    "label": "Zaō Gongen",
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    "id": "153343",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Zaō Gongen",
    "description": "Zaō Gongen is the deity of Mount Kinpu, in the Yoshino Mountains south of Nara. This fragment is from a votive mirror called a <em>kakebotoke</em> with metal fittings at the top through which a cord could be used to hang it.",
    "date": "1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.47",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79939140"
    ],
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        "Metalwork"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.47/1986.47_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.47/1986.47_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 25.8 x 17.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Heian period (794–1185)"
    ],
    "accession": "1986.47"
}

{
    "tec": "Gilt bronze with repoussé and incised details",
    "tombstone": "Zaō Gongen (蔵王権現), 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Gilt bronze with repoussé and incised details; overall: 25.8 x 17.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1986.47",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "蔵王権現",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "This votive mirror would have been hung in a temple or shrine.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1986.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 74, no. 2, 1987, pp. 38–79.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 237, p. 50; Mentioned: p. 79",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 1987.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em>, vol. 41, 1988, pp. 95–110.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 10, p. 98",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111187"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Vilbar, Sinéad, and Kevin Gray Carr. <em>Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art. </em>Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 186-187, no. 75"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.47",
    "creditline": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 11:45:47.777000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.47/1986.47_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 153343,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Gilt bronze with repoussé and incised details",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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