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Shaka, the Historical Buddha


Shaka sanzon zô Shaka nyorai
釈迦三尊像 釈迦如来
Japanese
Muromachi period
15th century

Medium/Technique One from a set of three hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions 127.0 x 54.3 cm (50 x 21 3/8 in.) (height x width)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.6257
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. I (Buddhist & Shinto ptg.), no. 85 (1)
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.