Mokujiki Jishinzō (Self-portrait)
Self-portrait of the artist
Object RecordSC-1804-001
- Type
- sculpture
- Vow Serial
- 千体之内
- Date
- 1804
- Date Notes
- Bunka 1 (1804); age 87 (confirmed from reverse inscription)
- Medium
- Wood
- Location
- Tokyo National Museum
- City
- Tokyo
- Prefecture
- Tokyo
- Country
- Japan
- Accession
- C-1825
- Cultural Property
- National Museum Collection
- Sources
- ColBaseBunkaHeritage-509030TNMEmail
Notes
Donated by Masaichirō Yoshizawa (吉沢政一郎). In: TNM exhibition 'Dueling Geniuses'. Note: ColBase gives 享和4年 which is an era-dating error — 享和 ran only 3 years (1801–03); the correct Japanese era is 文化元年 (1804). Inscriptions/dimensions in: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan Zuban Mokuroku Nihon Chōkoku-hen (1999) WorldCat 44766596.
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Current Location
Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Related Poems
よろずよの…
Praying to the gods / of ten thousand ages — / may the Buddhas I carve / remain in this world.
W-007 ↗
いくたびも…
Again and again / I set the chisel and pray — / within the thousand: / the Buddha guiding.
W-004 ↗
ゑがけども…
Though I carve and carve, / still the image remains — / the face of the Buddha / lingering in the heart.
W-002 ↗
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