| schema:description 10 | "current_location: 235B Japanese" |
| schema:description | "collection: Japanese Art" |
| schema:description | "tombstone: Medicine Master Buddha (Yakushi Nyorai), 1100s. Japan, late Heian period (c. 900-1185). Gilded wood; overall: 145.4 cm (57 1/4 in.); figure: 88.2 cm (34 3/4 in.); pedestal: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Takako Setsu and her son Iwao in memory of her husband Inosuke Setsu and his long friendship with Sherman E. Lee 1973.85...(more)" |
| schema:description | "creditline: Gift of Takako Setsu and her son Iwao in memory of her husband Inosuke Setsu and his long friendship with Sherman E. Lee...(more)" |
| schema:description | "type: Sculpture" |
| schema:description | "measurements: Overall: 145.4 cm (57 1/4 in.); Figure: 88.2 cm (34 3/4 in.); Pedestal: 57.2 cm (22 1/2 in.)" |
| schema:description | "technique: gilded wood" |
| schema:description | "wall_description: Composed of a number of hollowed-out pieces of wood that were then covered with lacquer and gilding, this sculpture would have served as the principal image of worship in a Buddhist temple hall. The Buddha Yakushi resides in the Lapis Lazuli Paradise of the East, and heals all diseases, including the ailment of ignorance. His left hand once held a medicine jar, while his right hand gestures reassurance. Seated on a lotus pedestal and backed by a mandorla and halo, the Buddha may have once been flanked by the bodhisattvas of the Sun and Moon, Nikkō and Gakkō, and protected by the Twelve Divine Generals, or Junishinshō....(more)" |
| schema:description | "culture: Japan, late Heian period (c. 900-1185)" |
| schema:description | "id: 147588" |
