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Tamura Tadayuki: Tsuba with a Gate Guardian at Todaiji   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Tamura Tadayuki  (fl. circa  wikidata:Q65530567
 
Description Japanese bladesmith
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artist QS:P170,Q65530567
Title
Tsuba with a Gate Guardian at Todaiji
Description
English: The large figure on the right of the tsuba is one of the paired guardians ("ni-ô") who guard the main south gate at Buddhist temples in Japan. These fierce looking figures protect temples from evil spirits. In front of the statue is a pilgirm. At the lower left is another pilgrim, with his staff and hat laying near him. On the reverse is a man crawling through a hole in a pillar. This reveals that the temple is Todaiji in Nara. The pillar is in the Great Buddha Hall and the hole is said to be the size of the nostrils of the Buddha statue. The statue itself is forty nine feet high. Those who successfully pass through the hole in the pillar are believed to gain enlightenment in their next life.
Date circa 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(Edo)
Medium iron, gold, silver, copper
Dimensions 6.9 × 6.5 × 0.4 cm (2.7 × 2.5 × 0.1 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
51.239
Place of creation Japan
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters
Inscriptions [Signature] Tadayuki
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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current05:07, 24 March 2012Thumbnail for version as of 05:07, 24 March 20121,745 × 1,800 (2.68 MB)File Upload Bot (Kaldari) (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Walters Art Museum artwork |artist = Tamura Tadayuki (Japanese, active ca. 1800) |title = ''Tsuba with a Gate Guardian at Todaiji'' |description = {{en|The large figure on the right of the tsuba is one...