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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 25
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Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 25

1200s · Album, ink on paper

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These twelve figures are personifications of the dizhi 地支, or Earthly Branches. Each is accompanied by its corresponding animal in the Chinese zodiac. The Earthly Branches would normally be accompanied by the ten Heavenly Stems, or tiangan 天干, which suggests a missing leaf.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit line(佛道主題畫冊): Album of Daoist and Buddhist Themes: Procession of Daoist Deities: Leaf 25, 1200s. China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Album, ink on paper; painting: 34.3 x 38.4 cm (13 1/2 x 15 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund in honor of Dr. Ju-hsi Chou and Gift of various donors to the department of Asian Art (by exchange), 2004.1.25
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