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Source Description
Cast pagoda reliquary (sharito) (stupa-shaped reliquary) pagoda. Artisan's inscription inside bottom of pagoda. Dedication inscribed on door of pagoda.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
23407
label
Pagoda Reliquary (""Sharito"")
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object
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Source metadata
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23407
sourceUrl
contentType
object
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normalized
title
Pagoda Reliquary (""Sharito"")
description
Cast pagoda reliquary (sharito) (stupa-shaped reliquary) pagoda. Artisan's inscription inside bottom of pagoda. Dedication inscribed on door of pagoda.
provenance
Minoda Chojiro, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; purchased by William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1648 (early Edo)
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
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reliquaries
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7
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import
dimensions
units
cm
width
48
height
20.7
depth
20.7
dimensionsRaw
H: 18 7/8 × W: 8 1/8 × D: 8 1/8 in. (48 × 20.7 × 20.7 cm)
Source extras
cul
Japanese
inscriptions
kazariya hanshiro sakutame hoin joyu dai osho; dai junana kai onshi fuku nari yui dai shamon myozo keian gannen [ ][ ] bishu
kaito-gun hachizuka chireizan; [Translation] Made by the metalworker Hanshiro/[Dedicated] on the occasion of the 17th anniversary of the death of the great priest Hoin Joyu by his disciple Myozo
in the first year of Keian (1648)
at the temple of Chireizan
in the town of Hachisuka
district of Kaito-gun
province of Bishu.
med
gilded and patinated copper alloy with glass beads (reliquary) and paper, wood, and ink (contents)
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2999
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none
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244
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