Memorial Stone

ca. 18th century (Edo)

29.8 cm 53.3 cm 22.9 cm

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This stone was erected to help ensure that a pious Buddhist couple would be reborn in the Paradise of the Western Buddha. They were given Buddhist names and called "female believer" (left) and "male believer" right. The seated left-hand figure looks like the Bodhisattva Kannon...

Sculpture

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6440
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Professor Walther Kirchner, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2002, by gift.
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en
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