佛像网

尺寸: H 100.8, W 41.0
年代: 14世纪
质地: 挂轴；绢本设色
风格: 日本
来源: 奈良国立博物馆
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Thousand-Armed Kannon (Sahasrabhūja)

This is a figure of Senju-kannon (Sahasra-bhuja) with forty-two arms and eleven heads. It is a regular composition of Senju-kannon defined in the Senkō-gan Kanjizai-bosatsu Himitsuhō-kyō sutra (Qian-guangyan Guanzizai-pusa Bimifa-jing sutra). The body of the deity is painted in gold pigment and outlined in red. The decoration of the costume is painted in gold pigment, and white wash is used for the details. The outlines and drapes are rendered with rather broad cut-gold foil. The face is slightly elongated, which reflects people's iconographic taste during the Song and Yuan dynasties, Mt. Fudaraku (Potalaka) which was the sanctuary of Kannon, is depicted in the background. The outline of the mountain was drawn with soft brush strokes which look like painted in ink. Shading in ink was added over the outline: then it was painted in green, and gold pigment was added at some places. Several kinds of trees are growing on the mountain, though sparsely. At the bottom of the picture there are a waterfall and the sea with waves. A dragon is appearing from the sea, holding a magic jewel. The combination of the dignified expression of the Buddhist figures and the depiction of the natural landscape is excellent. It was an epoch-making attempt by esoteric Buddhist artists to adopt the Yamato-e-style natural landscape.

Masterpieces of Nara National Museum. Nara National Museum, 1993, p.58, no.41.

不空羂索观音（Avalokiteśvara）——（称“南圆堂曼荼罗”）

不空羂索观音为观音之密教化化身，其名意为“以不空之羂索济度众生的观音”。本图八臂所持法器及光背剑形尖端等特征，均表明其为摹写兴福寺南圆堂本尊不空羂索观音像之作。此图被认为是现存最古老的不空羂索观音与四天王共绘之画像。