Standing Prince Shotoku at Age Two (Shotoku Taishi Nisaizo), c. 1292Japan, Kamakura period, 1185-1333
Japanese cypress (hinoki) wood; assembled woodblock construction with polychromy and rock-crystal inlaid eyes
26 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 9 in. (67.9 x 24.8 x 22.9 cm)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Promised gift of Walter C. Sedgwick in memory of Ellery Sedgwick Sr. and Ellery Sedgwick Jr., 99.1979.1
Photograph by Junius Beebe, President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Reflections of the Buddha
September 9, 2011
ON VIEW: September 9, 2011-March 10, 2012
Reflections of the Buddha is the first loan exhibition of Pan-Asian Buddhist art in
St. Louis. It presents over twenty masterpieces from seven important American
collections, including Asia Society, New York; Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler
Museum; and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The artworks represent a wide swath
of Buddhist cultures dating from the second century CE. Primarily sculptures, these
works come from Afghanistan, China, Korea, India, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan,
and Tibet.
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