Jizobuji Temple Main Hall: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
Sandstone
Jizobuji Temple Main Hall: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
JAPAN, Wakayama, Kainan; Kamakura period
An inscription on the mandorla dates the statue to 1323. It was commissioned by Shinjo and sculpted by Ingyokei. Ingyokei was a stone mason that succeeded Igyomatsu’s style. The statue was listed an Important Cultural Property in 1974.
The statue is carved from a single piece of rock and its platform is built from several slabs of sandstone. Ksitigarbha sits in full lotus position on a lotus throne, with the right hand holding a six-ringed monk’s staff and a large jewel in the left hand. The figure wears monastic robes with smoothly flowing folds over both shoulders. The lotus nimbus intersects with a plain aureole and both are incorporated in a flame-shaped mandorla with a seated Amitabha at its apex.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 502.
Cite this article:
author = Hsingyun and Youheng and Lovelock, Yann and Chou, Yuan and Huntington, Susan and Edson, Gary and Neather, Robert,
booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M},
pages = 502,
title = {{Jizobuji Temple Main Hall: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva}},
volume = 11,
year = {2016}}