Self-portrait (Bishamondō; Inagawa-chō)
Self-portrait of the artist; age 89-90
Object RecordSC-1807-004
- Type
- sculpture
- Vow Serial
- 千体之内
- Date
- 1807
- Date Notes
- Bunka 4 (1807); Inagawa-chō; same corpus as SC-1807-003
- Medium
- Wood
- Location
- Bishamondō (毘沙門堂); Inagawa-chō
- City
- Inagawa-chō
- Prefecture
- Hyōgo
- Country
- Japan
- Sources
- Fujii2021
Notes
Figure 3 in Fujii Tatsuya 2020. Part of the 26-work Inagawa-chō Mokujiki corpus. Fifth known carved self-portrait (cf. SC-1805-003 1805; SC-1804-001 1804; SC-1801-002 1801; SC-1785-001 1785).
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Current Location
Bishamondō (毘沙門堂); Inagawa-chō
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 ↗
ゑがけども…
Though I carve and carve, / still the image remains — / the face of the Buddha / lingering in the heart.
W-002 ↗
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