Three Names of Shinto Deities

Object Details

• Artist

  Hakuin Ekaku 白隠慧鶴 (1685-1768)

• Description

  Written in three columns of large, bold characters are the names of three Japanese Shinto deities: at right, Hachiman Daibosatsu (great bodhisattva Hachiman), at center, the sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, and at left, Kasuga Daimyojin, a name denoting the four principal deities (kami) of the Kasuga Shrine in Nara

• Inscriptions

  1. (Ann Yonemura, From Acquisition Consideration Report, 9/24/03)

• Provenance

  To 2003

  Alice Yelen and Dr. Kurt Gitter, New Orleans, Louisiana. [1]

  From 2003

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of the Gitter-Yelen Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Exhibition History

  Zenga-The Return from America: Zenga from the Gitter-Yelen Collection (October 10 to June 5, 2001)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Alice Yelen and Dr. Kurt Gitter

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the Gitter-Yelen Foundation

• Type

  Calligraphy

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Gitter, Alice Yelen and Dr. Kurt

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Shinto

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)