
Collection Online as of May 16, 2022
Bronze with repoussé and etching
Diameter: 52.5 cm (20 11/16 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1985.16
not on view
Kakebotoke (literally “hanging Buddhist deities”) like this appeared from the latter part of the Heian period. They often hung on the doors of a Shinto shrine hall to indicate the Buddhist manifestation of the god, or kami, inside, or along the eaves of a Buddhist temple hall to indicate the Buddhist deity celebrated there.