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Subject:寒山 Kanzan & 拾得 Jittoku Part II
Posted By: Mikael Wed, Sep 24, 2014 IP: 62.116.234.64

I take the liberty to continue a topic under a new title, because the request has taken a new direction.

Here are my new questions:

- Guy was generous to share his knowledge by proposing a reading of the backside text of my sculpture.
Dated: 1596 (Bunroku no Saru)
By: Seishin' (青心)
Where: Owari province

Can anyone confirm his suggestions? (Don't mean to disrespect or be ungrateful to Guy by any means)
- Kanzan has what appears to be a text/characters on his scroll. Can it be identifies as a specific poem?
- What was the original use/context of a sculpture like mine? For whom was it made?

Once again I also want to declare that my interest in this sculpture lays in its educational qualities, not for profit or commercial purpose.

Best Regards.

// Mikael (Sweden)



Subject:Re: 寒山 Kanzan & 拾得 Jittoku Part II
Posted By: mikael Thu, Sep 25, 2014

More pictures...





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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Subject:Re: 寒山 Kanzan & 拾得 Jittoku Part II
Posted By: Mikael Mon, Aug 29, 2016

Anyone that have further comments on this piece?

Regards

// Mikael


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