Bronze Sutra Cylinder
- Date
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制作年 AD15
- Title
- ドウセイキョウヅツ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- 青銅
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-000049-0000
- License
- CC BY Images license
- Creditline
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慶應義塾（センチュリー赤尾コレクション）
- URL
- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Rectangle Grey Liquid Font Monochrome photography
This bronze sutra cylinder has a snugly-fitting lid. The raised lid creates a softly sloping line, but the popular knob is absent. Despite the simple design, the body of the cylinder is decorated with a statue of the Seated Amitabha (Jap. Amida Nyorai) and there is a Lotus Base (Jp. Renge-Za; Sk. padmasana) on the front of the lid. These designs were more associated with the Muromachi art, so perhaps the cylinder was cast in that era. The short size and very small scripture inscriptions suggest that this cylinder was used as a portable container of a sutra copy, carried around as a talisman. It is not certain where this cylinder was excavated.
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- Title (EN)
- Bronze Sutra Cylinder
Physical description
- Weights and quantities
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Quantity 1点
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 銅鋳造
- Attachments
- 桐箱一
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