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Standing Buddha

Standing Buddha

12th century

Japanese

Carved from a single block of wood, this statue represents a transcendent human figure with a simple robe draped over his shoulders. Special physical characteristics, such as the elongated ears and ushnisha (the protrusion on the top of the head), indicate that this is a depiction of the Buddha.
Wood
49 x 14 1/2 x 7 in. (124.5 x 36.9 x 17.8 cm)
Overall: 49 9/16 x 15 11/16 x 14 1/4 in.
Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
60.74
location
Now on view at the Asian Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Fall and Winter in Japan", October 22, 2002 - February 23, 2003

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Spring and Summer in Japan",
February 28, 2002 - October 13, 2002

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Discovering Buddhist Art - Seeking the Sublime", July 9, 2003 - June 3, 2005

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum", 1960 (1960)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art", February 5 - July 12, 1987 (2/05/1987 - 7/12/1987)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, "Distant Reverence: Buddhist Sculpture from the Seattle Art Museum", August 16 - October 22, 1989 (08/16/1989 - 10/22/1989)

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing.

Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 36.

Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 58, reproduced fig. 18 (installation view).

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