SculptureJapanese

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Artists

Hidechika (Chounsai)Artist

Classification

Sculpture

Medium

Ivory

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Related Artworks

Sculpture

Seated Female Shintō Deity (Nyoshinzō)

Unknown Artist, Heian-Kamakura period, 12th-13th century

Wood, single-woodblock construction; with traces of polychromy over white gesso ground

12th-13th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Head of a Priest

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Cypress wood with traces of pigment: single-block construction

18th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Miniature Buddhist Shrine in the Form of a Lotus Petal with representation of a Sâkyamuni Buddha Triad (Shaka sanzon): the Historical Buddha Shaka Nyorai (Sâkyamuni) flanked by Bodhisattvas Monju Bosatsu (Mañjusrî, on a lion) and Fugen Bosatsu (Samantabhadra, on an elephant) and with exterior design of the Sanskrit seed-syllable 'bhah' and lotus petals

Unknown Artist, Late Edo period, 18th-19th century

Carved sandalwood, the exterior decorated with gold hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), the interior with carved representations embellished with polychromy and gilding

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Standing Bodhisattva on Lotus Pedestal

Unknown Artist, 14th century

Wood with pigment and traces of cut gold

14th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

One of a Pair of Shinto Lion-Dogs (Koma inu), with Mouth Closed (Un-gyō)

Unknown Artist, 14th-15th century

Kaya (Japanese nutmeg) wood with traces of pigment; multiple-block construction

14th-15th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Flying Apsaras (Fragment of a Mandorla)

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Cypress wood with lacquer and gold-leaf: single-block construction

18th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Gigaku Mask (Gigakumen), perhaps representing Shishiko, Suikoju, or Taikoji

Kiei-shi, Nara period, circa 754

Wood with traces of polychromy

8th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Forgotten Promise

Nagare Masayuki, Shōwa period, 1968

Black granite

20th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Seated Child

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Cypress wood with pigment: multiple-block construction

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Small Image of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (Japanese: Jizō Bosatsu)

Unknown Artist, Kamakura period, datable to circa 1292

Wood; red pigment applied to the lower underskirt, earth-green pigment to the hair and back, and black to the eyes; wire halo

13th centuryJapanese

Sculpture

Buddha at Birth (Tanjō Butsu)

Unknown Artist, 7th century

Bronze

Ivory