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Buddha of Healing (Yaksa Yeorae)
Buddha of Medicine (Yaksa Yeorae)
금동약사여래입상, 金銅藥師如來立像
Medicine Buddha
Buddha of Healing (Yaksa Yeorae)
Buddha of Medicine (Yaksa Yeorae)
금동약사여래입상, 金銅藥師如來立像
Korean
Unified Silla period
8th century
Object Place: Korea
Medium/Technique
Gilt bronze
Dimensions
H. 36 cm (14 3/16 in.)
Width (max): 3 cm
Width (max): 3 cm
Credit Line
Gift of Edward Jackson Holmes in memory of his Mother, Mrs. W. Scott Fitz
Accession Number32.436
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA Highlights: Arts of Korea (2012), p. 37
ProvenanceDuring the Nara period (710 – 784) possibly taken to Japan by a Korean envoy from Silla [see note 1]. 1908, purchased in Japan by Okakura Kakuzo (b. 1862 - d. 1913, aka Okakura Tenshin), Boston; 1921, gift of the estate of Okakura Kakuzo to Edward Jackson Holmes (b. 1873 - d. 1950), Boston; 1932, gift of Holmes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 1, 1932)
Notes:
[1] Kojiro Tomita, "A Korean Statue of the Healing Buddha, Eighth Century." Bulletin of Museum of Fine Arts, vol. 31, no. 185 (June 1933): 38.
Notes:
[1] Kojiro Tomita, "A Korean Statue of the Healing Buddha, Eighth Century." Bulletin of Museum of Fine Arts, vol. 31, no. 185 (June 1933): 38.
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