Willow-and-Moon Kannon (Yōryū Kannon)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Willow-and-Moon Kannon (Yōryū Kannon)

Gakuō Zōkyū (Japanese, active about 1482–1514) · c. 1500

Hanging scroll; ink on paper
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Kannon is a bodhisattva—a being capable of enlightenment, but who delays it in order to help other beings.

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