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Stone Hokyointo Stupa Pagoda Buddha Jizo Muromachi 15 c browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques: Furnishings: Garden: Statuary: Pre 1492: item # 804735 Please refer to our stock # 235 when inquiring.
Antique Stones Japan Daikyocho 27 Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0015 +81-3-3352-3799 $2,400 |
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Hokyointo stupa sculpted in four parts from a relatively soft, lightweight sedimentary stone. Muromachi Period ca. 1400, possibly earlier. Overall softening of the lines and contours, with very minor old loss. Generally uniform lichen accumulation. Height: 74 cm A uniquely Japanese stupa form, the hokyointo takes its name from the Hokyoin Darani sutra, the earliest hokyointo, made of wood or gilded bronze, functioning as repositories for copies of that eponymous sutra. From the Kamakura Period (1192–1333), hokyointo were made nearly exclusively of stone and employed as funerary markers, particularly of exalted personages. A notably solid, modestly scaled example of an extremely elusive type of Japanese stone stupa, with stylistic clues pointing to a possible Nanbokucho-Period (1333-1392) or early-Muromachi-Period (1392-1568) ca. 1400 manufacture date. Uncommon. |
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