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Shaka, the Historical Buddha, with Two Attendants and the Sixteen Rakan


Shaka sanzon jûroku rakan zô
釈迦三尊十六羅漢像
Japanese
Edo period
18th century

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions 150 x 101.6 cm (59 1/16 x 40 in.) (without painted mounting) (height x width)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7104
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. I (Buddhist & Shinto ptg.), no. 172
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.