Dai-Seshi Bosatsu, woodcore, gold paint over black lacquer coating. From <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edo&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Edo (page does not exist)">Edo</a> period, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=1705&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="1705 (page does not exist)">1705</a>. Collection Goldmann. Located at the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Museum_f%C3%BCr_Ostasiatische_Kunst,_Berlin-Dahlem&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin-Dahlem (page does not exist)">Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin-Dahlem</a>. The signature at the base translated reads:<i>Dai-Seishi Bosatsu, carved on the 25th day of the 7th month of the 2nd year of the Hōei-Era (1705) by the great Buddhist master.</i> The signature at the back of the statue reads:<i>On the 25th day of the 7th month of the 2nd year of the Hōei-Era (1705), given by the construction master Takabayashi Matabei Shigeyuki.</i>
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>