Manjusuri and Sea Turtle

1989 Irregular: 97.5 x 65.5 cm (38 3/8 x 25 13/16 in.)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.77.a

The Japanese term for substituting an unexpected figure for a conventional one is mitate (見立), or “stand-in.” Oda Mayumi applies the device, popular in ukiyo-e prints of the Edo period (1615–1868), to Monju (Manjushri in Sanskrit), a bodhisattva—a being among those considered...

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