A WOOD SCULPTURE OF A STANDING JIZO BOSATSU (BODHISATTVA KSHITIGARBHA)

Lot 32
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Lot 32 | A WOOD SCULPTURE OF A STANDING JIZO BOSATSU (BODHISATTVA KSHITIGARBHA)
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A WOOD SCULPTURE OF A STANDING JIZO BOSATSU (BODHISATTVA KSHITIGARBHA)

JAPAN, KAMAKURA PERIOD (13TH CENTURY), DATED 24TH DAY OF THE NINTH MONTH OF THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE SHOO ERA (1291), SIGNED HOGEN INTAN

Carved and assembled from Japanese cypress wood in yosegi zukuri technique as Bodhisattva Kshitigarbha standing, the left hand holding a wish-fulfilling jewel and right hand holding a staff, wearing robe open at the torso and falling in pleats, the robe pattern decorated in kirikane (cut-gold leaf), inlaid jewel on the forehead (urna), the inlaid rock crystal eyes painted with black pupils ringed in red, standing on a lotus base; dated and signed on the wooden tenons attached to the bottom of the feet

Height including base: 54 ½ in. (138.5 cm.)





Provenance

Inosuke Setsu, Setsu Gatodo, Tokyo

Acquired from the above on 8 January 1962, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

K. Mizuno, ed., Nihon chokoku shi kiso shiryo shusei: zozo meiki hen, vol. 14 (Tokyo: Chuo Koron Bijutsu Shuppan, 2018), text volume (kaisetsu hen), no. 403, pp. 154–56. Text by Kensuke Nedachi; research by Kensuke Nedachi, Takayuki Seya & Ai Seya.



Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long term loan, from 2012-2022. Loan number L.2012.3.1a–c.
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