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Benzaiten, the Goddess of Music and Good Fortune, and Fifteen Attendants


Benzaiten jûgo dôji zô
弁財天十五童子像
Japanese
Muromachi period
14th–15th centuries

Medium/Technique Panel; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions 88.6 x 36.0 cm (34 7/8 x 14 3/16 in.) (without painted mounting) (height x width)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4107
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. I (Buddhist & Shinto ptg.), no. 118
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 Museum.