Broken-off Wooden Top-Knot (Motodori)
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制作年 AD11
- Title
- モクゾウモトドリザンケツ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Wood
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
- Ref. number
- AW-CEN-002457-0000
- 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）
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- Classification
- Art
- AI Tagging
- Hair Head Vertebrate Human body Sculpture
A motodori was a top-knot, or long hair tied in an ornate manner at the top of the head. The exhibit shows a wooden top-knot, most likely broken off from a statue of a Dainichi (Great Sun) Nyorai or a Crowned Amitabha Nyorai (Jp: Hokan Amida). Both represent Buddha at different stages of religious attainment. Basically, only the Buddha figures before reaching enlightenment, except for Jizo (Sk: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva), would carry the top-knot. The Nyorai, or Buddha after attaining enlightenment, is often depicted devoid of any ornate elements. In Esoteric Buddhism, however, the Dainichi Nyorai, as its center of worship, and a transformed Crowned Amitabha Nyorai are depicted in exceptional decorated forms. This exhibit is likely to have broken off from one such wooden figure.
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- Broken-off Wooden Top-Knot (Motodori)
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Quantity 1箇
- Materials, techniques and shape
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Materials 彩色
- Attachments
- 白黒コピー1枚
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