Important Cultural PropertyKakebotoke with the Original Forms of the San'nō Jussha Shrine Deities

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  • 金銅山王十社御正体
  • By Taira no Kagetoshi
  • 1 piece
  • Bronze with gilding
  • D 30.4
  • Kamakura period/Kenpō 6(1218)
  • Nara National Museum
  • 738(工147)

  Kakebotoke is a hanging bronze plaque like a mirror with images of deities embossed or three-dimensional carved and is thought to have been delivered from a votive mirror. This is a round bronze plaque, San’nō Mandala kakebotoke, to which deities of ten San’nō shrines represented by a decorated bronze sheet and incised designs in detail are affixed. The bronze plaque has a reinforcement of the rim with another metal (fukurin), and a flower-shaped clasp (hanagata kanza) and a ring for hanging (tsuri kan) on the upper side. A deity of the highest-ranking shrine at Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine, Ōmiya, shaped a monk and is affixed in the center on a grand scale surrounded by the male god Hachioji, the monk-shaped Shōshinshi and Ni no Miya, the monkey god Dai-Gyōji, the lying cow Ushi no Miko, the Male god Hayao, Bodhisattva Jizō-shaped Jū Zenshi and female gods Maroudo no Miya and San no Miya in a clockwise direction. Their names are incised by a needle (harigaki) on the back and the following inscription in the center: 阿蘇谷預主也/建保六年[歳次/戊寅]七月十九日/阿蘇谷預所院主惣公文/中御子平景俊. According to this, this article was made by Taira no Kagetoshi who was the priest-official of azukari dokoro from the Aso alluvial plain (Sue, Asagiri Town, Kuma County, Kumamoto Prefecture) in Kenpō 6 (1218). This is a precious kakebotoke representing the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) and is notable as an article related to Hiyoshi San’nō.

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