hanging scroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.58.JA
- Title
- Object: Enmei son 延命尊
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. The bodhisattva Enmei Son (Jizo Bosatsu), seated on a lotus throne, holding a vajra in the right hand and a vajra-hilted bell in the left; images of the 'Five Holy Buddhas' form part of the crown. Ink and colour on silk.
- Production date
- 1800-1880
- Dimensions
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Height: 181 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 104 centimetres
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Width: 81 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 59.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- '58. Yemmei 延命 is a title applied to Fugen Bosatsu. See Shimbi Taikwan. VIII 9.' (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2009 Oct 25-2010 Feb 14, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.58.JA
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.3524 (Japanese Painting Number)