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Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha

Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha

1700s
(1615-1868)
hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
Painting only: 59.2 x 22.1 cm (23 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.); Including mounting: 126.4 x 33 cm (49 3/4 x 13 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1982.26
Location: not on view

Description

Images like this one that depicts a demon in the guise of an itinerant monk intoning the name of the Buddha are called Otsu-e, or "Otsu paintings." Otsu-e were made as souvenirs for travelers passing through the station of Otsu along the Tokaido, the route stretching from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto. Realized through a combination of woodblock printing, rapid brushstrokes, embellishment with color and gold pigments by stencil or by hand, the earliest Otsu-e, produced in the 17th century, were Buddhist and Shinto icons. Later images included figures popular from Kabuki plays, as well as scenes illustrating parables.
  • ? at least by 1978–1982
    (Shogoro Yabumoto, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1982–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Ono, Tadashige 小野忠重. "On Ōtsu-e 大津絵考." Kobijutsu 古美術 March 1973, no. 33, pp. 46–66. Reproduced: color plate 2
    Hauge, Victor, and Takako Hauge. Folk Traditions in Japanese Art. Washington: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1978. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 22, pp. 56, 58
    Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (1983): 3–55. Mentioned: no. 121, p. 54; Reproduced: no. 121, p. 46 www.jstor.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Images of the Mind. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. Reproduced: [p. 11]
  • Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 21, 2014-January 13, 2015).
    Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).
    The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
    Folk Traditions in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 20-October 29, 1978).
  • {{cite web|title=Demon Intoning the Name of the Buddha|url=false|author=|year=1700s|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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