Dai-Seshi Bosatsu, woodcore, gold paint over black lacquer coating. From Japan, Edo period, 1705. Collection Goldmann. Located at the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin-Dahlem. 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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