Artist
Kaikei
(快慶; fl. ca. 1183–1223)
Catalogue information
Kamakura period, ca. 1202
Lacquered, polychromed, and gilded Japanese cypress (hinoki) with kirikane and inlaid crystal eyes
H. of statue 51.2 cm (20 1/8 in.); h. of pedestal 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Shimizu Zenzō 1979, no. 112, fig. 114, p. 96
; 1979
“Amerika ∙ Kanada ni aru Nihon chōkoku (2)” (Japanese sculptures in America and Canada, 2). Bukkyō geijutsu / Ars Buddhica, no. 127 (November).
Kaufman 1985, figs. 7, 8
; 1985
“Practice and Piety: Buddhist Art in Use.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 91–99.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 82
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Avitabile 1990, no. 2
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Kaneko Hiroaki et al. 1991, pl. 61
; 1991
Unkei, Kaikei. Shōgakukan Gallery: Shinpen meihō Nihon no bijutsu (Shōgakukan Gallery: Masterpieces of Japanese art; New edition), 13. Tokyo: Shōgakukan.
Mizuno Keizaburō et al. 1992, fig. 12
; 1992
[Editors]. Mikkyō jiin to butsuzō (Esoteric Buddhist temples and sculpture). Heian no kenchiku, chōkoku (Architecture and sculpture of the Heian period), vol. 1. Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Survey of Japanese art), 5. Tokyo: Kōdansha.
Murase 2000, no. 21
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mizuno Keizaburō 2003–10, vol. 2 (2004), pt. 1, Zuhan, no. 45, figs. 45-1–45-14, pp. 87–91
; 2003–10
[Editor]. Nihon chōkokushi kiso shiryō shūsei: Kamakura jidai: zōzō meiki hen (History of Japanese sculpture: Records of sculpture-making in the Kamakura period). 9 vols. Tokyo: Chūōkōron Bijutsu Shuppan.
pt. 2, Kaisetsu, no. 45, pp. 114–17
; 2003–10
[Editor]. Nihon chōkokushi kiso shiryō shūsei: Kamakura jidai: zōzō meiki hen (History of Japanese sculpture: Records of sculpture-making in the Kamakura period). 9 vols. Tokyo: Chūōkōron Bijutsu Shuppan.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 15.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 549 in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[right] seed syllables for Fugen Bosatsu, Kongōkai Dainichi Nyorai, Jizō Bosatsu, and [on lotus pedestal] Amida Nyorai
[middle] seed syllables for Amida Nyorai, Fugen Bosatsu, and Jizō Bosatsu
[left] En Amida Butsu, seed syllable for Amida Nyorai, seed syllable for Muryōju Nyorai, Amida Butsu, Monk Shinkai, Ryō Amida Butsu, and seed syllable for Amida Nyorai