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Buddha of Infinite Life and Light (Amida Nyorai)

阿弥陀如来像

1269

Kōshun

(Japanese, active mid-1200s)

assisted by Koshin

(Japanese, active mid-1200s)

assisted by Joshun

(Japanese, active mid-1200s)
Culture
Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333)
Medium
Cypress with lacquer, color, gold, cut gold, rock-crystal inlaid eyes, and quartz
Measurements
Overall: 94.6 cm (37 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1960.197
Public Domain
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Location
235B Japanese
Print
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Did You Know?

The lead sculptor was Kōshun, who had been granted the lofty title “Bridge of the Law.”

Description

This ornate Buddha Amida stands in a posture of welcome, greeting the dying who will accompany him back to his Pure Land. Documents inserted into the sculpture’s hollow core around the time of its creation include a copy of the sacred text Amida Sutra, a register of donors who desired to be joined together in generating karmic merit (kechien) through the creation and dedication of the sculpture, and a record asserting that the image was completed over the course of 33 days in 1269 at Shitennōji Temple in Osaka.
Gilded wood sculpture of the standing Buddha Amida, a deity with long ears, short, dark hair created by neat rows of small knobs, a ribbon-like moustache, and a circular white spiral on his forehead. He holds his left hand down, palm up, and right hand up, pointer finger and thumb pressed together. He wears a robe draped in numerous flowing folds and patterned with bands of fine, leafy patterns amongst a continuous, rectangular spiral pattern.

Buddha of Infinite Life and Light (Amida Nyorai)

1269

Kōshun, Koshin, Joshun

(Japanese, active mid-1200s), (Japanese, active mid-1200s), (Japanese, active mid-1200s)
Japan, Kamakura period (1185–1333)

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