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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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Bishamondō (毘沙門堂); Inagawa-chō

Inagawa-chō, Hyōgo, Japan

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