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The story emerged in the early 1300s that the kami Tenjin had traveled to China and achieved enlightenment under a famous Buddhist meditation master. Paintings of the subject as well as written invocations of Tenjin’s name were highly valued by the monks of Japan’s Zen Buddhist communities, to which an invocation of Tenjin’s name brushed by Zen monk Sakugen Shūryō attests. Sakugen was both a poet and an official envoy to Ming China in the 1500s. Creating calligraphies of deities’ names was akin to painting religious icons.
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86105
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Sacred Name of Tenjin
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object
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86105
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object
title
Sacred Name of Tenjin
description
The story emerged in the early 1300s that the kami Tenjin had traveled to China and achieved enlightenment under a famous Buddhist meditation master. Paintings of the subject as well as written invocations of Tenjin’s name were highly valued by the monks of Japan’s Zen Buddhist communities, to which an invocation of Tenjin’s name brushed by Zen monk Sakugen Shūryō attests. Sakugen was both a poet and an official envoy to Ming China in the 1500s. Creating calligraphies of deities’ names was akin to painting religious icons.
date
1500s
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q79472216
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36663
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Calligraphy
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 105.4 x 18.4 cm (41 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.)
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Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
accession
2015.508
Source extras
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hanging scroll; ink on paper
tombstone
Sacred Name of Tenjin, 1500s. Sakugen Shūryō (Japanese, 1501–1579). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; overall: 105.4 x 18.4 cm (41 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of George Gund III, 2015.508
collection
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
inscriptions
inscription
signed: signature unread
inscription
Sealed: Sakugen
citations
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. 110-113, no. 45
creditline
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
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2026-05-29 04:58:30.151000
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86105
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Hanging scroll
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hanging scroll; ink on paper
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male
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