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Hiroshi Yanagi Oriental Art
241-1, Nakano-cho
Shinmonzen-dori
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Kyoto 605-0082, Japan
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Gozu Tenno, carved wood, possibly, camphor wood with polychrome, late Heian period, 12th century.
Height 54 cm.
This is a representation of the Buddhist deity Gozu Tenno "Ox Head Heavenly King." In Japan he was thought to quell epidemics and has been worshipped since the Heian period. The sculpture is exceedingly unusual as it lacks the bull's head commonly perched above the deity's human head. Representations of this deity survive from as early as the Heian period, and this is one of those early depictions, dating to the late Heian period, 12th century.
Gozu Tenno, carved wood, possibly, camphor wood with polychrome, late Heian period, 12th century.
Height 54 cm.
This is a representation of the Buddhist deity Gozu Tenno "Ox Head Heavenly King." In Japan he was thought to quell epidemics and has been worshipped since the Heian period. The sculpture is exceedingly unusual as it lacks the bull's head commonly perched above the deity's human head. Representations of this deity survive from as early as the Heian period, and this is one of those early depictions, dating to the late Heian period, 12th century.
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