Otowa ware standing Amida Nyorai with inscribed pedestal

Object Details

• Artist

  Otowa Jizaemon (born 1663)

• Description

  Clay: hard, dense, grayish.

  Glaze: Figure - dark brown and translucent glazes; traces of gilding over iron wash. Pedestal - green, and gray-blue enamels over transparent glaze; brownish-black iron-glaze accents.

  Inscription on pedestal.

• Inscriptions

  The inscription on the bracket into which a gilt-bronze halo would have been fitted reads:

  67 years 六十七才

  Made by Otowa Jizaemon 音羽治左衛門作之

  The more complete inscription on the shaft made to secure the image on the stand reads:

  Kyoho 14th year cyclical date 享保十四年巳酉

  Tenth month 15th [day] 67 years 十月十五六十七才

  Made by Otowa Jizae 音羽治左衛　作之

• Provenance

  Temple Kiyomizu, Kyoto [1]

  To 1907

  Unidentified owner, Japan, to 1907 [2]

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Japan from an unidentified owner in spring of 1907 [3]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

  Notes:

  [1] Charles Lang Freer was told when he bought this piece that it had once been in "temple Kiyomizu, Kyoto" (see Curatorial Remark 7, L.A. Cort, 1985, in the object record).

  [2] See Original Pottery List, L. 1565, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [3] See note 2.

  [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Temple Kiyomizu

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Sculpture

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• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, buddha, Temple Kiyomizu

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Dharmacakra, Stoneware, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Amitabha Buddha, Japanese Art, Iron wash, Lotus

• Culture

  Buddhists, Japanese

• Object Type

  Sculpture