"This is a little bit off The Silk Road but some of the Buddha's are so beautiful !!"
Enku's Buddhas: Sculptures from Senkoji Temple and the Hida Region
Honkan Room T5 January 12, 2013 (Sat) - April 7, 2013 (Sun)
Honkan Room T5 January 12, 2013 (Sat) - April 7, 2013 (Sun)
Enku (1632-95) was a Buddhist monk and sculptor who is said to have carved 120,000 Buddhist statues in his lifetime while making pilgrimages to sacred mountains all over Japan. Using wood from forests in the places he visited, Enku readily created Buddhist statues. Many of his statues are unpainted and clearly show knots in the wood as well as places where the wood was chopped or chiseled. Conveying the wood’s vitality, Enku’s unostentatious statues of Buddha were favored by villagers from the Edo period (1603-1868) onward, and even today they attract many admirers. This exhibition introduces 100 Enku’s statues from Takayama City in Gifu prefecture, with a focus on 61Enku's statues from Senkouji temple, including the Seated Ryomen Sukuna, a prized statue of a two-faced deity. There are also statues with the inscribed names of mountains Enku climbed, including Mount Hotaka and Mount Norikura. Standing like trees in the exhibition room, Enku’s statues evoke the atmosphere of Hida’s forests.
General Information | |||||||||
Period | Saturday, January 12 - Sunday, April 7, 2013 | ||||||||
Venue | Honkan Room T5, Tokyo National Museum (Ueno Park) | ||||||||
Hours | 9:30 - 17:00 (Last entry 30 minutes before closing) Fridays on March and April until 20:00 Saturday, April 6, Sunday April 7 until 18:00 | ||||||||
Closed | Mondays (Except for Monday, January 14 and Monday, February 11) | ||||||||
Admission | Adults: 900 (800) yen University students: 700 (600) yen High school students: 400 (300) yen Junior high school students and under: Free
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Access | 10 minutes' walk from JR Ueno Station (Park exit) and Uguisudani Station 15 minutes' walk from Keisei Ueno Station, Tokyo Metro Ueno Station and Tokyo Metro Nezu Station | ||||||||
Organizer | Tokyo National Museum, Senkouji Temple, The Yomiuri Shimbun, NHK, NHK Promotions Inc., | ||||||||
With the special assistance of | Takayama City, Takayama City Board of Education | ||||||||
With the Support of | Gifu Prefectural Government | ||||||||
General Inquiries | 03-5405-8686 (Hello Dial) | ||||||||
Exhibition Website | http://enku2013.jp/ (In Japanese) |
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Highlight of the Exhibition
Seated Ryomen Sukuna Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 86.9cm Senkoji, Gifu |
Standing Fudo Myo'o (Acala) with two child attendants Edo period, 17th century Overall heights: 95.8cm (Fudo); 62.3cm (Kongara); 58.8cm (Seitaka) Senkoji, Gifu |
Standing Thirty-three Kannon (Avalokitesvara) Edo period, 17th century Overall heights: 61.0cm – 82.0cm Senkoji, Gifu |
Seated arhat Binzuru (Pindola) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 47.4cm Senkoji, Gifu | Seated Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 50.2cm Higashiyama Shinmei Jinja, Gifu |
Shinto deity Ugajin Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 19.8cm Senkoji, Gifu | Standing Karura (Garuda, also Karasu Tengu) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 30.0cm Senkoji, Gifu | One of the Eight Great Dragon Kings Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 16.7cm Senkoji, Gifu |
Standing Fudo Myo'o (Acala) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 172.8cm Sogenji, Gifu | Seated Nyoirin Kannon Bosatsu (Cintamanicakra) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 74.8cm Higashiyama Hakusan Jinja, Gifu | Seated Aizen Myo'o (Ragaraja) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 67.4cm Reisenji, Gifu |
Standing Thousand-armed Kannon Bosatsu (Avalokitesvara) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 114.3cm Seihoji, Gifu |
Left:Standing Dragon Head Kannon Bosatsu (Avalokitesvara) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 158.3cm Seihoji, GIfu Right:Standing Sho-Kannon Bosatsu (Avalokitesvara) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 156.8cm Seihoji, GIfu |
Standing Kongo Rikishi (Ungyo of Nio pair) Edo period, 17th century Overall height: 226.0cm Senkoji, Gifu | Standing Kangiten (Ganesha) with shrine Edo period, 17th century Overall heights: Kangiten 13.5cm Senkoji, Gifu |
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