Votive Hanging with Image of Kannon (Kannon Kakebotoke)
Unknown Artist
mid- to late 1300s
Medium
Bronze with repoussé and etching
Dimensions
diam. 52.5 cm
Classification
Sculpture
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
1985.16
About this artwork
Kakebotoke (literally “hanging Buddhist deities”) like this appeared from the latter part of the Heian period. They often hung on the doors of a Shinto shrine hall to indicate the Buddhist manifestation of the god, or kami, inside, or along the eaves of a Buddhist temple hall to indicate the Buddhist deity celebrated there.