Pilgrim's coat
Datemid 18th century - mid 19th century
Maker
Japanese
Label TextOn the back of this coat, three big Sanskrit letters and smaller Buddhist texts appear on plain woven undyed cloth. Around the letter in the center, four red seals of Buddhist temples were stamped. This simple, unlined garment was worn by a Buddhist pilgrim, probably during a pilgrimage to the eighty-eight temples in Shikoku, the island southwest of Japan’s main island.
Object number2001.533
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Discovering Buddhist Art - Seeking the Sublime, July 9, 2003 - June 3, 2005.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view Feb. 8, 2020 - July 11, 2021].Published ReferencesFoong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): p. 59, reproduced fig. 20 (installation view).Credit LineGift of the Christensen Fund
Dimensions40 1/8 x 50 in. (101.92 x 127 cm)
MediumAsa cloth with ink and temple seals
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