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Ichiji kinrin, the Cosmic Buddha of the Golden Wheel


Ichijin kinrin zô
一字金輪像
Japanese
Kamakura period
beginning of the 13th century

Medium/Technique Panel; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk
Dimensions Image: 117.7 × 78.5 cm (46 5/16 × 30 7/8 in.)
Mounted: 196.7 × 95.5 cm (77 7/16 × 37 9/16 in.)
Overall: 290.3 × 99.1 × 5.2 cm (114 1/4 × 39 × 2 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4039
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #11; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 56; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. I (Buddhist & Shinto ptg.), no. 21
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA.