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Ten Kings of Hell (Jūōzō; Tōkōji Yakushidō)

Ten Kings of Hell (十王)

Object RecordSC-1807-009
Type
sculpture
Date
1807
Date Notes
Mokujiki age 90; circa 1807–1808. Complete set of 10 figures in Yakushidō at Tōkōji.
Medium
Wood
Location
Tōkōji (東光寺); Yakushidō (薬師堂); Inagawa-chō Kitasekine
City
Inagawa-chō
Prefecture
Hyōgo
Country
Japan
Sources
InagawaWalkingMap2014

Notes

Complete set of the ten judges of the Buddhist afterlife. Installed alongside Datsueba (SC-1807-010) and White Demon (SC-1807-011) as a coherent underworld iconographic programme. Compare SC-1799-001/002 (Hamamatsu Jūōdō).

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Tōkōji (東光寺); Yakushidō (薬師堂); Inagawa-chō Kitasekine

Inagawa-chō, Hyōgo, Japan

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