Catalog record · 目録番号 106294

Marishi Bodhisattva

摩利支天

Artist / 作者: Takeuchi Keishu武内桂舟
Date / 年代: 1911
Medium / 技法: 浮世絵 / Ukiyo-e / Meiji / ohmi
Digital image / 画像: 1455 × 2000 px
Published by / 公開者: 水野ナギ

Catalog note / 解説

Sunday, 6 February 2005 Artist: Takeuchi, Keishu Date: c. 1910 Description: Kuchi-e, Marici Bodhisattva Image Size: approx. 8" x 11.5" UK#: K105 "Marici is a bodhisattva in the Buddhist pantheon whose vehicle is the boar. In the kuchi-e Marici Bodhisattva by Takeuchi Keishu, a young woman is shown visiting the temple to Marici to pray for good fortune. She is walking past a container for offerings that is surmounted by wooden buckets of water for fire fighting. The second character for the word hono, meaning offering, can be seen on the container. Appropriately, the image of a boar, the zodiac animal for 1911, also adorns the offering container. The arms on the Buddhist swastika turn in the…

Image record / 画像情報

OHMI · 1911 · ohmi

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