Harvard Art Museums Exhibition on Prince Shōtoku Icon

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Harvard Art Museums Exhibition on Prince Shōtoku Icon

Sedgwick—owner of the Atlantic Monthly—

purchased the piece and had it shipped to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1937,

a visiting Japanese conservator at the MFA discovered more than 70 objects—including smaller sculptures and religious texts—

that had been sealed inside the sculpture’s body cavity, apparently untouched since the its creation in 1292.

Prince Shōtoku : The Secrets Within,

an exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums open through August 11, displays the results of that scholarship, alongside the statue and all of its objects, reunited for the first time since 1937.

Harvard Magazine

https://harvardmagazine.com/2019/06/harvard-art-museums-sh-toku-exhibition

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