Tachiki Koyasu Kannon (Tōkō-ji)
Child-protecting Kannon carved in a standing kaya tree (立木子安観音)
Object RecordSC-1807-003
- Type
- sculpture
- Vow Serial
- 千体之内
- Date
- 1807
- Date Notes
- Bunka 4 (1807); kaya tree in temple grounds; struck by lightning in Meiji period; now in Kannondi hall
- Medium
- Kaya wood (tachiki — carved in living tree)
- Location
- Tōkō-ji (東光寺); Inagawa-chō Kitasekine
- City
- Inagawa-chō
- Prefecture
- Hyōgo
- Country
- Japan
- Sources
- Fujii2021
Notes
Figure 1 in Fujii Tatsuya 2020. Temple holds 26 Mokujiki works (identified by Kurino Yorinousuke in 1951). Tachiki carved in kaya tree; after lightning strike in Meiji period moved to Kannondi hall. One of the mature-period tachiki works (cf. SC-1797-003 1797; SC-1804-006 1804).
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Current Location
Tōkō-ji (東光寺); Inagawa-chō Kitasekine
Inagawa-chō, Hyōgo, Japan