Tachibana Shrine

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National Treasure)[1][2]

The Tachibana Shrine (橘夫人厨子, Tachibana-fujin no zushi), also referred to as the

designated a National Treasure.[1][3][4]

History

The precise date of the shrine is uncertain, but it is generally placed at the end of the

Amida Triad - and it is understood that the two shrines were located on the great altar of the Kondō for many centuries, until their modern relocation to the Gallery of Temple Treasures.[2][8]

Description

The wooden shrine is generously proportioned for the three images it houses. The top is decorated in the form of a canopy with two rows of overlapping cloth hangings and a row of triangles, in blue, three different reds, yellow, and black, on a white ground. When first constructed, the shrine may have been open on all four sides, the roof supported on columns, making its doors a somewhat later addition.

boddhisattvas with raised hands on the front, arhats on the narrower sides, and on the better-preserved back, a scene with three figures in different poses on lotuses, on a white gofun ground, produced from heated shells.[2][10] As well as that of the Tang, strong Indian influence has been identified in these paintings, with Soper and Paine remarking that "the shrine reveals the many influences which were then current in Buddhism, as it reached Japan at the turn of the seventh century".[7][11]

On the floor of the interior is a bronze plaque with a depiction in

boddhisattvas and heavenly maidens in relief, and an openwork halo for the central image.[1][8] As Kidder has observed, the size of the two flanking figures makes them "little different" from the single images produced for aristocratic families, of which there are many examples amongst the Treasures from Hōryū-ji at Tokyo National Museum, while as an ensemble this is the most ambitious overall programme in bronze to survive.[2] Marking the pinnacle of contemporary bronze casting and carving also from technological perspective, the statues have been designated a National Treasure.[1][11]

Significance

Thanks to its connection with Lady Tachibana, the shrine stands alongside the

Amidism.[12]

See also

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34°36′54.2″N 135°44′7.1″E / 34.615056°N 135.735306°E / 34.615056; 135.735306

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bunkazai Hogo Iinkai, ed. (1963). 国宝 上古, 飛鳥·奈良時代, 西魏·唐 [National Treasures of Japan I: Ancient times, Asuka period, Nara period, Western Wei, Tang] (in Japanese and English). Mainchi Shimbunsha. p. 32.
  2. ^ a b c d Kidder, J. Edward (1999). The Lucky Seventh: Early Horyuji and Its Time. International Christian University Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum. p. 56.
  3. ^ "銅造阿弥陀如来及両脇侍像（伝橘夫人念持仏）" [Bronze Amida Nyorai Flanked by Attendants (so-called Lady Tachibana Nenjibutsu)]. Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Daihōzōin (Gallery of Temple Treasures)". Hōryū-ji. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  5. ISBN 4-642-07300-0
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  6. ^ 金 [Gold] (in Japanese). Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  7. ^
    ISBN 978-1-84718-567-9
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  8. ^ a b Parent, Mary. "Nenjibutsu". Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  9. ISBN 978-1403964205
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  10. ISBN 978-8172112691
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  11. ^
    ISBN 978-0300053333
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  12. ISBN 978-0824826970
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