Ryokoin Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
Ink and color on silk
船中湧現觀音菩薩像
日本
此像傳說係據空海於日本平安延曆二十三年（804）至中國求法，乘遣唐使船，途中遇惡風阻撓時，親睹觀音菩薩示現的情景而畫。繪製於十二世紀。主題特殊，更顯珍貴。一九五三年指定為日本國寶。
菩薩呈「S」形站姿，乘飛雲立於禮盤狀的台座上，戴花冠，右手持長莖蓮花，左手結劍印。飄動的衣帶及圓瞪的雙眼、緊蹙的眉頭，表現在狂風暴浪中，以威力鎮伏災難。作品利用黑暗的背景，襯托全身金色觀音像，具突出主體的效果，更顯層次分明。黑暗中風雲湧動，圖右方多層的環迴曲線強調海上波濤洶湧。黃白色身軀和黃色衣著繪以碎金和金泥，並飾以圓形紋樣，色彩亮麗。袖口、胸前、上衣下襬以銀泥邊飾，予人纖細之感。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, page 774.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Ryokoin Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, vol. 16, 2016, pp. 774.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Graham Wilson, Manho, Mankuang, and Susan Huntington. 2016. "Ryokoin Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z, 16:774.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youlu, Wilson, G., Manho, Mankuang, & Huntington, S.. (2016). Ryokoin Temple: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Painting P-Z (Vol. 16, pp. 774).
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