Sculpture / deity

Description

Figure in bronze of Sho-Kannon, the Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, holding a lotus in left hand, with right hand raised in abhaya mudra, with lotus pedestal of bronze bearing inscriptions, and wooden base: Japan, by Kogawa Ichimasa of Kanda, Edo, for Choshoji temple, Gyotoku, 1787

Museum reference

A.1985.312

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Sculpture / deity

Production information

Kogawa Ichimasa, 1787 (fl.)
Edo, Musashi province, Japan, East Asia

Date

1787

Style / Culture

Buddhist

Materials

Bronze, Wood

Physical description

Cast bronze

Associations

Depicted: Kannon

Exhibitions

• Exploring East Asia (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Georgina Russell, The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's Dispersal of Non-Medical Material 1936 to 1983, Museum Ethnographers Group Newsletter no. 20 (Feb 1987), pp. 21-45 - mentioned on p. 39.

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 5