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Copy of the Scroll of the Extermination of Evil (Hekija-e) and of the Hell Scroll ( Jigoku-e) (detail), Japan, Edo period– Meiji era, 19th century, handscroll, ink and colour on paper, 10 11/16 x 376 3/8 in. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, William Sturgis Bigelow Collection. © 2017 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Amida Buddha with Attending Bodhisattvas, Japan, Edo period, late 18th century, wood with gold, pigment, metal, and headstones, 22 x 18 x 9 in. San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Lenora and Walter F Brown, 2013. Photography by Peggy Tenison


Welcoming Descent of Jizo Bosatsu, Japan, Nanbokucho period, first half of the 14th century, hanging scroll, ink, colour, and gold leaf on silk, 42 ¼ x 15 ¾ in. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Te John R Van Derlip Fund; purchase from the collection of Elizabeth and Willard Clark, 2013. Photo: MIA


artistic creation in Japan. Tere is a similar style Korean painting of Avalokitesvara in descent. It was a period when the Korean Queen Munging was Regent (1545-1565) for her infant son, the king. She was a devout Buddhist in a country that heavily persecuted Buddhism as a remnant of what the Chosen dynasty (1392-1911),


considered the lavish Buddhist decadence of the preceding Koryo Dynasty (918-1392). She ordered the rebuilding of


major temples was


commissioned numerous Buddhist paintings. Avalokitesvara


and a


favourite subject in Koryo and the painting here harks back to the Koryo composition and style. Another pronounced Pure Land


work of art belongs to San Antonio, a Japanese gilt wood 18th-century triad,


strongly Confucian,


quite large and quite splendid. One piece of sculpture stands out, a Momoyama period, late 16th/early 17th-century gilt wood and lacquered figure of Emma-O, fifth of the Ten Judges of Hell, which is on loan from Dallas. Taken from Tang-dynasty belief, the deceased appeared before these 10 judges over a period of three years before his heaven/hell fate was decided. Tis opens another aspect of Pure Land, the karmic fate of being assigned to hell. In this bold sculpture, Emma-O is dressed in a Tang-style official’s robes and hat and appears anything but friendly. Te Japanese technique of inserting painted glass eyes into the face instantly brings Emma-O terrifyingly closer to face- to-face reality.


Te simple message of Pure Land is


to welcome and to receive blessings, something all sentient beings need for inner peace and the wide variety of works of art, be they paintings or sculpture,


chosen for this single-


subject exhibition are all, in one way or another, carriers of this message. Te curator of this exhibition is


Shrine (butsudan), Japan, Edo period, circa 1800, wood, lacquer, pigment, gilt, and metal, 33 x 16 x 13 inches (closed). Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dileep and Martha Mehta, 2000. Photography by Sean Pathasema


Dr Emily Sano, the Coates-Cowden- Brown Senior Advisor for Asian Art and Director Emerita of the Asian Art Museum of California. She has chosen the works of art in the exhibition with great care to help in demonstrating Pure Land practices and the explanation of the faith. • Heaven and Hell, from 16 June to 10 September, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, www.samuseum.org. • Catalogue available


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Welcoming Descent of Amida Buddha (raigo), Japan, Kamakura period, circa 1270-1333, hanging scroll; ink, colour, gold and cut gold on silk, 65 5/16 x 23 ¼ in. Te Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr and Mr William H Marlatt Fund © Te Cleveland Museum of Art


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Bamboo Exposed : Mastery in Modernity of


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Exploring the lineage of Take-Kôgei bamboo from Rokansai and Shokansai Iizuka


June 8 - 30, 2017


Opening Reception : June 8, 6 - 8 p.m. Monday – Friday, 11a.m. - 6 p.m. (Saturdays by appointment)


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