Mortuary tablet with painting of Emma-O and hell, Japan
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Pre 1900 item# 955755 (stock# 10595)
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Wooden ihai or mortuary tablet, the top crowned with clouds. This type of object usually holds the posthumous Buddhist name of a deceased and is placed in a butsudan. The ihai can also be used to pay homage to, for instance, a certain sutra. In this case a homage to one of the Kings of Hell. The ihai is decorated with the triple begonia-mon of the Tokogawa family. Lacquer on wood.
The painting, in black ink and color on paper behind glass, shows Emma-O, the judge of hell of the 35th day, surrounded by his attributes, Datsueba and other assistants and the soul of a deceased that he is about to judge. Some of the punishments for sins are being depicted in the background. Japan, 19th century.
Height: 29.8 inches (75.8 cm).
Very good condition, few abrasions.
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Zushi with figure of a horse, Japan, Meiji period, 19th
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Pre 1900 item# 940618 (stock# 10593)
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Highly unusual shrine with the image of a horse looking back. The horse has a ‘brocade’ cover over his back and is standing behind a mesh wire fence, the way they would be kept in temple compounds. Polychoromed wood with some gold details. The roof of the shrine is a separate piece. Japan, Meiji period, 19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 7.8 inches (19.5 cm).
Frontal baldachin dislodged but still extant, one door lost its hinge-functions (triangular splinter on right door on last photo), some chipping of the paint on brocade cover of horse. Otherwise very good condition.
This piece needs to be seen as a form of ema, which were offered to temples and shrines as a calling to the deity. The horse is seen to be used by various deities.
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Gorinto, reliquary, rock crystal, Japan, Edo Period
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Pre 1900 item# 940167 (stock# 10592)
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Small reliquary, in the shape of a five-element stupa, gorinto, made of rock crystal. The stupa is built according to the Five Elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether). The base is octagonal in shape (which may be square, as well), as is the bottom part of the cover (which may be triangular, as well). The reliquary is made of two pieces of crystal: earth and water (the water segment can hold the relic); fire, air and ether. Japan, prob. 18/19th century.
Height 6 7/8 inches (17.5 cm)
Some tiny chips at edge of ‘stopper’, otherwise excellent condition.
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Zushi with figure of Amida Buddha, Japan, 18th century
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Pre 1800 item# 940163 (stock# 10591)
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Very elaborate double-hinged door shrine with the wooden figure of a sitting Amida Buddha, both hands in mudra before him. Behind his head and back a double mandorla. Amida is sitting on a lotus pedestal on top of a multi-tiered base in flower-shaped profile. His garment decorated in fine gold hand painted flower and geometric patterns. All details of the base accentuated in hand painted gold.
The outside of the zushi in red lacquer with a tiny carving of a phoenix on the top front, richly engraved hardware. The inside of the zushi doors decorated with lotus flowers in gold and mineral colors on gold. The baldachin decorated in mineral colors and gold with Buddhist symbols.
Extremely fine carving of Buddha, mandorla and base.
Japan, Edo period 18/19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 3.9 inches (9.7 cm).
Painting on the inside doors rubbed, fraction of tip of mandorla missing, carving in excellent condition.
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Zushi with figure of Amida Buddha, Japan, 18th century
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Very small shrine with the wooden figure of a standing Amida Buddha, both hands in mudra. Behind his head a round mandorla. Amida is standing on a lotus pedestal surrounded by whirling clouds. His garment decorated in fine gold hand painted flower and geometric patterns. The inside of the zushi decorated with geometric design in gold on gold. The inside of the roof decorated with a lotus pod in gold on gold.
Extremely fine carving of Buddha. The clouds are deeply cut, gilded and touched with some color, as is the amndorla. The shrine can be hung from a small eyelet on its roof. Japan, Edo period 18/19th century.
Height of zushi ca. 3.9 inches (9.7 cm).
Gilding on doors minimally rubbed. Excellent condition.
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Bronze reliquary in zushi, Japan, Momoyama period
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Pre 1700 item# 935205 (stock# 10521)
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Small shrine with inside a reliquary or sharito in the shape of a flaming wish-granting jewel. Crystal jewel holding relics. The reliquary made of gilded bronze with fine engraved and punched decoration. Japan, Momoyama period (ca. 1568-1600).
Height sharito: 4.1 inches (10.4 cm); height zushi: 5.4 inches (13.5 cm).
Gilding of sharito virtually rubbed off, otherwise good condition. Zushi with traces of usage.
A very similar sharito is illustrated in Ultimate Sanctuaries: The Aesthetics of Buddhist Relic Worship, Nara National Museum, 2001, p. 158, dated Muromachi period. The shape of the flames and the decoration on the flames is very similar. The piece in the catalogue has most of its gilding.
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Painting, monks and musicians, Japan, 20th century
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Pre 1940 item# 934977 (stock# 10580)
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Highly unusual view of a Buddhist service. In the center sits a priest surrounded by 13 monks. They are all sitting on tatami mats, their hands folded in prayer around rosaries. In the back plays a group of musicians. In the background an altar with a painting of the Buddha Amida, flanked by portraits of priests. Very unusual painting with extremely realistic faces. Black ink and colors and gold on silk. Japan, allegedly painted in 1935, probably on special order or for a special occasion.
Measurements: ca. 27.5 x 46.5 inches (69 x 116 cm). Framed.
Few stains and creases, otherwise excellent condition.
Even though the year 1935 is not verifiable, the highly realistic style of the painting and the very typical Japanese subject matter point in the direction of the Nihonga movement that was very strong in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Paintings of Buddhist abbots, Japan, Muromachi era
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Pre 1492 item# 906386 (stock# 10522)
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Two paintings of a abbots or patriarch sitting on a small pedestal. One of them holds a vajra in the right hand and a tip of his garment in the left hand. His sandals are underneath the pedestal as well as a ewer. The other priest holds a flat device in his right hand and a tip of his garment in his left hand. Underneath the pedestal are his sandals. Very detailed painting. Black ink, mineral colors, gofun and gold on loosely woven silk (ca. 30 over 14 threads). Japan, ca 14/15th century.
The painted areas are built up from 2 panes of silk each, stitched together in broad stitches, consistent with the Muromachi period.
Frames: ca. 54 ½ x 25 5/8 inches (ca. 140 x 66 cm).
Mounting scrollers cut off and framed with mounting. Very good condition.
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Gilt bronze plaque, dragons and tama, Japan, Edo period
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Pre 1800 item# 899659 (stock# 10577)
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Gilded bronze plaque in the shape of two mighty celestial dragons whirling around a flaming jewel in the clouds. The dragons chased in high relief with excellent details, the background decorated in nanako, the tama in red copper with traces of gilding mounted into the middle of the plaque. The whole mounted on a bronze back plate with two eyelets for hanging. Probably used as a temple decoration. Japan, mid Edo period.
Width 9 ¼ inches (23.5 cm), height 8 ¼ inches (20.9 cm).
Tama rubbed and slightly dented, green corrosion in the gold, excellent condition.
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Head of monk’s staff, Japan, Meiji period
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The metal head of the staff, with some simple engraved decoration on the central shaft indicating lotus petals. The central ring has the shape of an inverted heart, from which six rings loop, three on each side. Mounted on a short wooden pole, covered with red lacquer. The staff is one of the 18 Possessions permitted to a monk. It has several uses attributed to it, among others to scare away insects and reptiles while traveling. Cast sentoku. Japan, 19th century.
H including pole ca. 10" (25.2 cm), H metal head only ca. 4.75" (12.3 cm).
Minimal corrosion on head, otherwise very good condition. Mounted on metal base.
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Wooden sculpture of Bishamonten, Japan, 16/17th c
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Figure of the guardian deity Bishamon trampling on a demon, holding a stupa in one hand, a halberd in the other. The back is hardly worked out, as the piece was meant to be seen in frontal view only. The whole is placed on a square plateau with rocky elements added. Wooden sculptures with crystal eyes (both Bishamon and the demon) and traces of polychrome painting (red, green). Japan, early Edo period, 17th century, perhaps a little earlier.
H of Bishamon and demon: 33 7/8 inches (86 cm).
Replacements and fixations of seams, insect damage, small breaks and some missing pieces in the base, foot of demon reattached, cracks and small chips in black lacquer. Still in good condition.
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Set of 6 hand scrolls, rokudo, Japan, 19th c.
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Very rare set of six makimono that illustrate the six realms of reincarnation, all mixed up over the six scrolls. Each scroll consists of five illustrations that alternate scenes from daily life with its sufferings and sins and scenes from hell that come as a punishment to those sins and with scenes from the life of Buddha, including also the nine stages of decay (kusozu). Each image is 31.1 inches (79 cm) long. The scrolls were probably used as a Buddhist teaching tool, to explain to laymen about sin and punishment and the superficialities of life. Ink, color, gofun and gold on paper. Japan, 19th century.
Each scroll: height 10.8 inches (27.4 cm), length 155.5 inches (395 cm).
Few restored worm holes, some traces of usage, slightly rubbed areas, mainly in the gofun, two spotty spots in scroll A, basically in very good condition. Mounting fairly recent and in excellent condition.
The six realms of reincarnation are from bottom to top hell, the realm of the hungry ghosts, realm of the animals, Asura, realm of the humans and the realm of the devas. The ultimate escape is enlightenment, which makes one being reborn into the Western Paradise.
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