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KYOTO NATIONAL MUSEUM by Teruhide Tomori on Flickr

円山応挙から近代京都画壇へ #kyotonationalmuseum #京都国立博物館 #円山応挙 (東京国立博物館) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnbJvssPA_4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#京都国立博物館 #kyotonationalmuseum #京都 #kyoto (京都国立博物館) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbl6bv0vSZG/?utm_medium=tumblr

池大雅 展　#kyotonationalmuseum #ikenotaiga #京都国立博物館 (京都国立博物館) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV9hLyBv_tu/?utm_medium=tumblr

京のかたな 展　#kyotonationalmuseum #京都国立博物館 #京のかたな (京都国立博物館) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMGoSNXjFwU/?igshid=10nkvv8y4us73

The Scribe, one if the attendants of Enma, king of the underworld in the Kyoto National Museum. These are some of my favorite Kamakura period sculptures in Kyoto at the Kyoto National Museum of Art. Kyohaku. He judges the person as good or bad and decides into which afterworld he or she will be sent. The worst world to go to is the Buddhist hells.   This idea of reincarnation originally came from India. Before entering Japan, however, Buddhism passed through China, where it became mixed with native Chinese religious beliefs. The Chinese believed that there were many kings who administered the afterlife, including one named Taizanfukun. When this belief was combined with the Indian beliefs, a whole new system called "Ten Kings Worship" was created. In this new Chinese Buddhism, ten kings, including Enma and Taizanfukun, were chosen to rule the afterlife. The dead person would have to be judged ten times before going on to the next world! Enma was believed to be the most important of these kings, so his statue would always be placed in the center, with Taizanfukun and another king called Godo Tenrin-o on either side. In front of these three kings sat two officials: a judgment-reader (shimyo and a record-taker (shiroku).   These are the sculptures of King Enma and his attending kings and officials. These statues are originally from a temple called Enmado, but they are now owned by a temple in Kyoto called Hoshaku-ji in Oyamazaki-cho, Kyoto Prefecture. They are the oldest statues of their kind and date to the beginning of the Kamakura period, in the 13th century. Look more carefully at the eyes on these statues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_National_Museum   https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/dictio/choukoku/enma.html #kyotonationalmuseum #kyohaku #sculpture #sculptor #contemporaryart #contemporarysculptor #contemporarysculpture #petersheltonsculptor #petersheltonsculpture @petersheltonsculptor @petershelton.com @petershelton @sheltonbigart #petershelton #bigart #sheltonbigart (at Kyoto, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeL4n1F_sL/?igshid=v9qgtl1nth8a

Enma, king of the underworld and his attendants in the Kyoto National Museum. He judges the person as good or bad and decides into which afterworld he or she will be sent. The worst world to go to is the Buddhist hells.   This idea of reincarnation originally came from India. Before entering Japan, however, Buddhism passed through China, where it became mixed with native Chinese religious beliefs. The Chinese believed that there were many kings who administered the afterlife, including one named Taizanfukun. When this belief was combined with the Indian beliefs, a whole new system called "Ten Kings Worship" was created. In this new Chinese Buddhism, ten kings, including Enma and Taizanfukun, were chosen to rule the afterlife. The dead person would have to be judged ten times before going on to the next world! Enma was believed to be the most important of these kings, so his statue would always be placed in the center, with Taizanfukun and another king called Godo Tenrin-o on either side. In front of these three kings sat two officials: a judgment-reader (shimyo and a record-taker (shiroku).   These are the sculptures of King Enma and his attending kings and officials. These statues are originally from a temple called Enmado, but they are now owned by a temple in Kyoto called Hoshaku-ji in Oyamazaki-cho, Kyoto Prefecture. They are the oldest statues of their kind and date to the beginning of the Kamakura period, in the 13th century. Look more carefully at the eyes on these statues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_National_Museum   https://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/dictio/choukoku/enma.html #kyotonationalmuseum #kyohaku #sculpture #sculptor #contemporaryart #contemporarysculptor #contemporarysculpture #petersheltonsculptor #petersheltonsculpture @petersheltonsculptor @petershelton.com @petershelton @sheltonbigart #petershelton #bigart #sheltonbigart (at Kyoto, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeIDSclxxa/?igshid=1sr4ra0zcka0k

お土産で頂いた八ッ橋の可愛さと言ったら… . #souvenir #kyoto #yatsuhashi #torarin #Kyotonationalmuseum #京都土産 #トラりん #聖護院八ッ橋 #京都国立博物館 #お皿は絵付けする前の九谷焼 (at Tokyo, Japan)