painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.90.JA
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Kokuzo Bosatsu (Sans: Akasagarbha) seated on a lotus throne before a full moon, with a canopy above. Ink and colour on silk.
- Production date
- 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 154.50 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 86.20 centimetres
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Width: 58 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 38.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- A bodhisattva whose name Kokuzo (S:Akasagarbha) literally means 'sky storehouse': his wisdom and merit are as vast as the sky. Seated on a lotus beneath a canopy, he holds a wish-fulfilling jewel (nyoi-hoju) and wears a crown which symbolizes the Five Wisdoms by the five meditating figures it contains. A note on the back of the mounting says that the painting was repaired by a certain Tanshin in 1780. Stylistically, the work revives an icon-type first established in the Kamkura period. (label copy, TTC, 1998)
'Kokū Zō Bosatsu.' 'Eighteenth century.' (unattributed annotations in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2000 26 Jun-24 Sep, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan Time'
- 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
- 1881,1210,0.90.JA
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.3484 (Japanese Painting Number)