聖徳太子像懸仏
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制作年 AD13
- Title
- ショウトクタイシゾウカケボトケ
- Materials, techniques and shape
- Bronze
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Keio Museum Commons Campus Mita
Kakebotoke, or a relief image of a deity on a round wooden or metal object or a mirror, was derived from Shinto-Buddhist syncretism. Kakebotoke is also called “Mishotai,” which was the revelation of the true image. In Shintoism, the mirror was an object of worship and people believed that the deity manifested itself upon it. The new philosophical base of assimilation of Buddhism with the native Japanese nature worshipping Shinto was that a Shinto deity (Jp; kami) was a manifestation of Buddha, thus the depiction of a Buddha image on the mirror as part of Shinto symbolism. The exhibit shows the painted image of Prince Shotoku on a mirror. The prince, instrumental in facilitating Buddhism taking deep root in Japan, stands on a lotus pedestal, as if he were a reincarnation of Buddha. It is a depiction of a legend in which a two-year-old infant prince faced the east and uttered prayers from the scripture. Here, the infant is half naked, draped with a red cloth from the waist down.
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