A Wood Standing Figure Of Jizo Bosatsu

MUROMACHI PERIOD (15TH CENTURY)

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A Wood Standing Figure Of Jizo Bosatsu
Muromachi Period (15th Century)
The cypress wood figure finely carved and decorated in polychrome pigment over gesso, the youthful features enhanced with eyes and byakuko inlaid with glass, the shakujo [staff] cast in bronze, supported by an Edo period lotus stand, some old wear consistent with age
22¾in. (57.8cm.) high

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Jizo Bosatsu had been worshipped since the Heian period, particularly as the protector of children. He is represented wearing rich brocade robes with a white face and bearing a hoju [sacred jewel] in his left hand to illuminate the darkness of hell, and a shakujo in his right hand. The supporting lotus pedestal symbolises the purity of Buddhism.

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