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    "localId": "400993",
    "label": "Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra",
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}

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    "id": "400993",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra",
    "description": "This repository is one of a pair that once contained the scrolls of a religious text called the <em>Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra</em>. Two discs painted on the back have the sacred syllables representing the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Buddha Amida. Eight of the 16 benevolent but fierce looking deities who protect the text appear on the doors.",
    "date": "late 1100s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.130.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117246339"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lacquer"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.130.1/1969.130.1_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 160 cm (63 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Heian period (794–1185)"
    ],
    "accession": "1969.130.1"
}

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    "tec": "lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork",
    "tombstone": "Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra (大般若経厨子), late 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork; height: 160 cm (63 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1969.130.1",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "大般若経厨子",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "didYouKnow": "The mate to this object is in the Nara National Museum in Japan.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1969.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 57, no. 1, 1970, pp. 2–50.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 236, p. 35; Mentioned: p. 51",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152307"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Art of Asia Recently Acquired by American Museums, 1969.” <em>Archives of Asian Art</em>, vol. 24, 1970, pp. 86–117.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 8, p. 88; Mentioned: p. 87",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/20111025"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"New Oriental art galleries at Cleveland.\" <em>Apollo: A Journal of the Arts. </em>August 1970, Vol. 92, pp. 148-151.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 4, p. 149"
        },
        {
            "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. 371",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n391"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三. <em>Zaigai bijutsu</em> [在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 223, 236, no. 134"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. <em>Masterworks of Asian Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 188-189"
        },
        {
            "citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. <em>Knockouts: A Pocket Guide</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 88, p. 82; Mentioned p. 119"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. <em>Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 27"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Stories from Storage.\" <em>The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries </em>24, no. 5: 6-7.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 6-7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Vilbar, Sinéad. “Protecting the Word.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 20–21.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: pp. 20–21"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.130.1",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:59:55.298000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1969.130.1/1969.130.1_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 400993,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "lacquered wood with ink, color, gold, cut gold, and metalwork",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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