Tachiki Kannon (Shinpuku-ji)
Avalokiteśvara carved in a living pear tree (立木観世音)
Object RecordSC-1804-006
- Type
- sculpture
- Vow Serial
- 千体之内
- Date
- 1804
- Date Notes
- Bunka 1 (1804); May 18; carved in pear tree in garden of Hosaka Shōsuke; tree later died and figure moved to Shinpuku-ji Daihikaku
- Medium
- Pear wood (tachiki — carved in living tree)
- Dimensions
- H 67 cm
- Location
- Shinpuku-ji Daihikaku (眞福寺境内大悲閣); originally Hosaka Shōsuke's garden; Tarōmaru
- City
- Tarōmaru (now Kashiwazaki area)
- Prefecture
- Niigata
- Country
- Japan
- Sources
- YanagiPhotoBook1925
Notes
Entry 78 in Yanagi 1925 photo book (解説No 78). Dimensions 丈二尺二寸; material pear (梨). After the host tree died the figure was moved to Shinpuku-ji's Daihikaku. Part of the Shinpuku-ji corpus alongside the Niō pair (SC-1804-004/033) and Konpira (SC-1804-007).
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Current Location
Shinpuku-ji Daihikaku (眞福寺境内大悲閣); originally Hosaka Shōsuke's garden; Tarōmaru
Tarōmaru (now Kashiwazaki area), Niigata, Japan