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Fugen enmei, the Bodhisattva of Universal Virtue who Prolongs Life


Fugen enmei bosatsu zô
普賢延命菩薩像
Japanese
Heian period
12th century

Medium/Technique Panel; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk
Dimensions Image: 141.7 × 88.3 cm (55 13/16 × 34 3/4 in.)
Framed: 170.9 × 99.7 cm (67 5/16 × 39 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4036
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #8; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), pp. 52-3; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. I (Buddhist & Shinto ptg.), no. 6
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA