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Stone Yakushi Nyorai (Healing Buddha) Jizo Edo 18th c. browse these categories for related items... Directory: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1800: item # 652251 Please refer to our stock # 123 when inquiring.
Antique Stones Japan Daikyocho 27 Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0015 +81-3-3352-3799 SOLD. |
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Sandstone depiction of a seated Yakushi Nyorai (Healing Buddha), the left hand holding a medicine jar and the right hand forming the semui-in fearlessness-granting mudra. Mid-Edo Period ca. 1750. Overall softening of the lines and contours but virtually no loss. Good lichen accumulation. Height 50.3 cm, Width 21.2 cm, Depth 17.0 cm. Images of a small group of bodhisattvas (bosatsu, in Japanese), namely, Jizo Bosatsu, the various manifestations of Kannon Bosatsu, and Seishi Bosatsu, dominate the field of Japanese stone sculpture throughout the Edo Period (1603-1868) and into the modern era. Largely absent from the field of production during the same period are stone images of the various manifestations of the Buddha (Nyorai, in Japanese), chiefly, Amida Nyorai, Dai-Nichi Nyorai, Shaka Nyorai, and Yakushi Nyorai. An extremely rare Edo-Period Buddha, elegantly sculpted and in virtually pristine condition. |
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