Kosho, fl. ca.1230. il: Kannon (illustration); Horyuji (Monastery: Japan) Mus2ee Guimet (Paris, France); Sculpture -- Missing and found works; Reconstruction of works of art; Bronzes, Japanese; Bodhisattvas; Bronzes, Buddhist; Triads
摘要
Under the double influence of the development of Amidist's faiths and a certain reversal to the origin of Japanese Buddhism, the Prince Shōtoku, considered formerly as the incarnation of the great compassionate Kannon, knew then a renewal of popularity. The origin of the inspiration placing the Amida's Triad in the Kondō has probably to be searched among a Religious like Kenshin, well-known compiler of an important mass of information about the prince's life accomplished in 1238 (Shōtokutaishi den shiki), an the instigator of a maṇḍala centred on the Prince himself (Shōkō-mandara). All things considered, the most fundamental place is granted to this Triad in the beliefs, expressed by the religious dispositif of the Kondō both in the Shōtoku-taishi den shiki and in the maṇḍala in question: stating her name, the mother of the Prince, widow of the Emperor Yõmei (the Hõryūji, it has to be recalled, has been built initially for his recovery) is nominated as a ″descended trace″ of Amida; the Prince, himself, like one of Kannon and his wife the Lady Takahashi, alias Kashiwade, like one of Seishi. This is the conception having apparently presided over the source of the statue, Emile Guimet acquired later. He bought it as a Chinese work suspecting nothing about the Holy and glorious origin. The circumstances of this object's disappearance from the Monastery has still not been resoluted in the present state of knowledge. This article is the presentation of the texts relating to this question.
