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Buddha of Medicine and Attendants
약사십이신장도, 藥師十二神將圖
Medicine Buddha Triad with Twelve Guardians
Buddha of Medicine and Attendants
약사십이신장도, 藥師十二神將圖
Korean
Joseon dynasty
late 16th century
Object Place: Korea
Medium/Technique
Ink and colors on silk
Dimensions
Overall: 123 × 127.5 cm (48 7/16 × 50 3/16 in.)
Framed: 218.4 × 152.4 × 8.9 cm (86 × 60 × 3 1/2 in.)
Framed: 218.4 × 152.4 × 8.9 cm (86 × 60 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Adams Collection—Gift of the heirs of Henry Adams
Accession Number19.265
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA Highlights: Arts of Korea (2012), pp. 102-3
Marks
At the back of the wooden frame, a slip of paper is kept on which an inscription is written in 1784 in a Japanese hand, explaining its collecting and mounting history.
此尊像也表裝破壞而納篋笥久矣今茲欲加修補以耀金容爰元祿年間有毛利甲斐守綱元公為明玄院殿菩提所寄附之大金爛打敷一帖予想割之小之而辨其用則願主意趣已立以其所裁長之地修飾此像則亦不壇主祈禱乎遂乃命工成之云尔
峕(即: 時)天明四年甲辰之秋九月吉辰 成福院現住入寺照運謹識
此尊像也表裝破壞而納篋笥久矣今茲欲加修補以耀金容爰元祿年間有毛利甲斐守綱元公為明玄院殿菩提所寄附之大金爛打敷一帖予想割之小之而辨其用則願主意趣已立以其所裁長之地修飾此像則亦不壇主祈禱乎遂乃命工成之云尔
峕(即: 時)天明四年甲辰之秋九月吉辰 成福院現住入寺照運謹識
Inscriptions大妃殿下伏爲
主上殿下壽君福國之願
受命良工願成彩畵釋迦
修道會圖二幁彩畵藥師
一幁地藏一幁純金熾盛
光會圖一幁偉哉至誠所
感怍我
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主上殿下龍圖永康鳳歷長
新麒童麟子?--绳-國
國泰民安雨順風週無疑
矣嗚呼至哉
謹跋
主上殿下壽君福國之願
受命良工願成彩畵釋迦
修道會圖二幁彩畵藥師
一幁地藏一幁純金熾盛
光會圖一幁偉哉至誠所
感怍我
---
主上殿下龍圖永康鳳歷長
新麒童麟子?--绳-國
國泰民安雨順風週無疑
矣嗚呼至哉
謹跋
Provenance16th century, commissioned by Queen Munjeong (b. 1501 - d. 1565), Kingdom of Goryeo. 1784, housed in Jofukuin, Japan. 1886, possibly acquired in Japan by Henry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Boston and Washington, DC [see note]; 1919, gift of the heirs of Henry Brooks Adams to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 26, 1919)
NOTE: Brooks traveled to Japan in 1886 with artist John La Farge.
NOTE: Brooks traveled to Japan in 1886 with artist John La Farge.