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Fragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise
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Fragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise

1100s · gold lacquer on wood

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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The lid of this box has a fragment of an image representing the Pure Land of the Buddha Amida, and an interior decorated with lotus petals. The original, complete composition may have been a panel housed within a shrine cabinet, and used for meditation. An aversion to discarding sacred images likely led to the fragment’s incorporation into this small box.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineFragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise (阿弥陀仏浄土蒔絵手箱), 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Gold lacquer on wood; overall: 2.6 x 7.8 cm (1 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1961.91
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