LOT DETAILS

Materials:

cypress wood, applied with gold lacquer and pigment

Measurements:

26.02 in. (66.10 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Tokyo National Museum, on loan, 2004.4.6-6.30, 2004.9.1-11.1. PUBLISHED: "Unkei no Nyorai zo hakken" (New discovery of Unkei's Buddhist sculpture), Yomiuri Shinbun (Yomiuri Newspaper), 2004.3.13, (morning edition, front page). "Unkei kuhakuki no butsuzo - Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan ga kakunin" (Buddhist sculpture from Unkei's period of unknown activity - Confirmed by Tokyo National Museum), Asahi Shinbun (Asahi Newspaper), 2004.3.13, (morning edition). Yamamoto Tsutomu, "Shinshutsu no Dainichi Nyorai zo to Unkei" (Newly discovered statue of Dainichi Nyorai [Mahavairocana] and its likely connection to Unkei), Museum 589 (2004.4), color pls. 1-2, pls. 1-13, 31-36. "Shinhakken Unkei no Nyorai zo" (Newly discovered sculpture of Buddha by Unkei), Yomiuri Shinbun (Yomiuri Newspaper), 2004.4.12 (evening edition). Yamamoto Tsutomu, "My Favorite Things," Geijutsu Shincho (2004.5), p. 11. Miyake Hisao, ed., Kamakura jidai no chokoku - Hotoke to hito no aida (Sculpture in the Kamakura period - Between Buddha and man), Nihon no Bijutsu (Arts of Japan) 459 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 2004), p. 53. Yamamoto Tsutomu, Shinhakken no Dainichi Nyorai zo to Unkei (Newly discovered Dainichi Nyorai sculpture and Unkei), Yurin 439 (Yokohama: Yurindo, 2004), p.4. ____, Butsuzo no naibu o miru (Looking at the interior of a Buddhist sculpture), in vol. 1 of Koza Nihon Bijutsushi - Mono kara kotoba e (Lectures on Japanese art history - From object to word), edited by Sato Yasuhiro (Tokyo: Tokyo daigaku shuppankai, 2005), pls. 17-19. ____, Butsuzo no himitsu (Secrets of Buddhist sculpture) (Tokyo: Asahi shuppansha, 2006), pp. 25, 98-99. Suzuki Norio, ed., Bunkazai to kagakugijutsu (Cultural property and scientific technique), Nihon no Bijutsu (Arts of Japan) 492 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 2007), front page, pls. 16 and 1-26.