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Subject:Re: 寒山 Kanzan & 拾得 Jittoku Part II
Posted By: mikael Mon, Oct 13, 2014
I received some more info from various sources:
From a japanese artist:
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first line: BunRoku era, May,
second line: Owari no Kuni, Seto (the area has been famous for the ceramics)
third line: Hotta JingoRo(Family name and given name) made
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From a doctor and author in this subject.
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I wish I could help you more, but I have never seen anything quite like these. The closest image I can think of is a large statue of Oni Nenbutsu carved in wood that also came out of an old Swedish collection, and is now in the possession of Sydney Moss Gallery, London.
http://www.slmoss.com/art_object.aspx?id=10#
My suspicion is that both statues emerge from a little known tradition of depicting popular deities, often for provincial temples or patrons, and carved by regional sculptors.
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