Bodhisattva Jizo
Also titled Jizo Bodhisattva
c. 1300 - c. 1350
- Medium
- gold (metal), ink, dye, silk
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- diameter 55 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase auction collection A. Breuer, Berlijn, 1929)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Jizo saves souls and those who pass away. Commissioning a portrait of Jizo was also considered propitious for a person’s ancestors. Jizo descends on a cloud and meets his devotees. Here he is shown in the usual way as an elegant, young monk, with a shaven head and richly decorated clothes.
