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Japanese Buddhist Monk Priest KUKAI Kobo Daishi Statue browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art: Pre 1900: item # 788685 Please refer to our stock # B-003 when inquiring.
Japonisme Arts and Antiques 1-14-12, Ryoke, Urawa-ku, Saitama-shi, Saitama, JAPAN Oita,Osaka,Kyoto,Shiga,Tokyo,Saitama,Toyama,Sendai +81-90-7593-0315 Guest Book Sold out. Thank you. |
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An Edo Clay Porcelain Statue of the Image of Kukai. Kūkai (空海)or also known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi (弘法大師), 774–835 CE was a Japanese monk, scholar, poet, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism. Kūkai is famous as a calligrapher (see Shodo), engineer, and is said to have invented kana, the syllabary in which, in combination with Chinese characters (Kanji) the Japanese language is written (although this claim has not been proven). His religious writing, some fifty works, expound the esoteric Shingon doctrine, of which the major ones have been translated into English by Yoshito Hakeda (see references below). Kūkai is also said to have written the iroha, one of the most famous poems in Japanese, which uses every phonetic kana syllable. Measurements: Height x Width x Depth = 26 x 25 x 16 cm Shipping and Handling via EMS:
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