Sculpture

  • Important Cultural Property

Standing Jizō-bosatsu (Ksitigarbha)

  • Japan Heian period, dated 1147
  • Polychromed wood
  • h: 160.0cm
  • [20011]

This Jizō-Bosatsu (Ksitigarbha) with its warmly elegant face reflects the aesthetics of the late Heian period. This is an important extant example of a work whose date of production, commissioner and contributors to the inscription found inside of the sculpture.