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Figure of Fudô Myôô Made from Sanskrit Letters (Bonji)


梵字不動明王像
Japanese
Edo period
Early 18th century

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper
Dimensions 82.6 x 30.7 cm (32 1/2 x 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.
Accession Number60.1370
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Baskett, Footprints of the Buddha (1980), #42 (Austin coll., Pittsburgh)
DescriptionSignature and seal of Kûkai (aka Kôbô Daishi, 774-835), described by Baskett as "honorific, not a true attribution, appearing quite regularly on other prints of Fudô,"
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1932, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 1960, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: November 9, 1960)

NOTE: Lent by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA in 1932.