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Antique Japanese Carved Okimono
Amida Buddha
Devotional Meditation Statue
Signed: Seiryo, circa: early 1900S'
H 4.5 in.(11.5cm), W 2.75 in.(7cm), D 2 in.(5cm)
Condition: Crackline on base, O.A. very good

A fine okimono of Amida Buddha, the Buddha of Infinite Life. Carved from the tip of the tusk, cream to golden in color, with striations and markings front and back, the signature fluently inscribed on the bottom reads Seiryo --listed in Contemporary Netsuke by Miriam D. Kinsey, Tuttle, 1977 Seiryo, born Hideo Sumida in 1935 in Kumamoto Perfecture to a Samurai family. Studied under Seiho Ishida.

The piece is carved with utmost simplicity as a devotional statue in Zen practice. The figure of the Buddha sits in meditative repose in full lotus, parallel arcs of his falling garment creating a gentle rhythm that compliments the imperturbable stability, lending softness and lightening the effect. The face is broad with full cheeks, curving lips and delicately tinted high arching brows above the large downcast eyes. Carving is clean, free of surface decoration and imbued with the sincerity of unadorned faith. In the Jodo sect, reciting with a pure heart the words “Manu Amida Butsu,” secures entry into the Pure Land, the western paradise of Amida Buddha.

The Buddha of Infinite Life is the personification of compassion; the intermediary between Supreme Reality and mankind. He represents the Higher Self, and the esoteric meaning of rebirth into his paradise is the awakening of Bodhicitta in the human heart. --RW

Amida Buddha Okimono
Private Collection

  
  
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