Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Conservation Status: After Treatment
Four Guardian Kings (Jikokuten, the Guardian of the East)
Conservation Status: After Treatment

Four Guardian Kings (Jikokuten, the Guardian of the East)

Chômyô (Japanese, active 1233–1295)
13th century
Medium/TechniqueOne of a set of four panels; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions147.1 x 72.4cm (57 15/16 x 28 1/2in.)
Credit LineFenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession number11.4063
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceAbout 1253 thought to have been made for Isonokami Shrine, Eikyû-ji; after 1868 thought to have been transferred to Tôdai-ji, Nara; prior 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.