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Daiitoku Myôô, the Wisdom King of Great Awe-inspiring Power, Riding a Water Buffalo into the Sea


大威徳明王
Japanese
Edo period–Meiji era
19th century
Object Place: Japan

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions 50 x 27.8 cm (19 11/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number60.1367
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Baskett, Footprints of the Buddha (1980), #35 (this impression)
DescriptionFor another hand-colored print with the same iconography, thought to be early 17th century, in the HUAM collection, see Rosenfield & ten Grotenhuis, Journey of the Three Jewels (1979), #23.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1932, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 1960, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: November 9, 1960)

NOTE: Lent by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA in 1932.