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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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Tōkō-ji (東光寺); Inagawa-chō Kitasekine

Inagawa-chō, Hyōgo, Japan

Related Poems

よろずよの

Praying to the gods / of ten thousand ages — / may the Buddhas I carve / remain in this world.

W-007

いくたびも

Again and again / I set the chisel and pray — / within the thousand: / the Buddha guiding.

W-004

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