A WOOD SCULPTURE OF A STANDING FEMALE SHINTO DEITY

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Лот 17 | A WOOD SCULPTURE OF A STANDING FEMALE SHINTO DEITY
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A WOOD SCULPTURE OF A STANDING FEMALE SHINTO DEITY

JAPAN, LATE HEIAN PERIOD (11TH-12TH CENTURY)

Carved from Japanese bigleaf magnolia in single block technique (ichiboku-zukuri) as a Shinto deity (kami) standing, her arms in front of the body, wearing courtly gown, with traces of color pigments

Height: 38 ½ in. (97.8 cm)





Provenance

Shoichi Fujiki, before 1943.

Ryuzaburo Umehara, by 1943.

Hiroshi Hirota (Kochukyo Co. Ltd.), Tokyo.

Acquired from the above on 21 May 1964, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

H. Munsterberg, Mingei: Folk Arts of Old Japan (New York: Asia Society; distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1965), fig. 50, p. 61.

M. Mertz, S. Tazuru, S. Ito & C.J. Bogel, 'A Group of Twelfth-Century Japanese Kami Statues and Considerations of Material Intentionality: Collaborative Research Among Wood Scientists and Art Historians', in Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q), Kyushu, Spring 2022, vol. 7, fig. 19.



Exhibited

New York, Asia Society, Mingei: Folk Arts of Old Japan, May - July 1965.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long term loan, from 2012-2022. Loan number L.2012.3.3.
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