Gyodo mask of a bodhisattva
Date1158
Maker
Japanese
Object number51.131
Exhibition HistoryVancouver, British Columbia, University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, The Hidden Dimension: Face Masking In East Asia, May 22 - Dec. 1984.
Pomona, California, Los Angeles County Fair, One World of Art, 1951.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum, 1960.
New Orleans, Louisiana, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Masks and Masquerades, 1961.
Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Masterworks in Wood: Japan and China, Nov. 2 - Dec. 5, 1976 (New York, New York, Asia House, Jan. 13 - Mar. 13, 1977).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987.
Tokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012.Published ReferencesLee, S., "Japanese Art at Seattle", Oriental Art, II, 3, P. 92, Winter 1949 - 1950
Fuller, 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. 42
Issac Delgado Museum of Art, "Masks and Masquerades", 1961, no. 116
Mayuyama, Jenkuchi, "Japanese Art In The West", 1966, no. 43
Mayuyama, Junkichi, "Mayuma, Seventy Years", 1976, vol. II, P. 171, pl. 346
"A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, copublished by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1987, ill. p. 44
Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 5Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions8 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (21.59 x 20.96 x 13.02 cm)
MediumWood, gesso, and polychrome