Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 8. (Budapest, 1965)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Buddha relief with lotus pedestal from the Kamakura period

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tongue of flame" of the halo Fig. 5. Details of the lotus pedestal (designs) there is a representation of five-Buddhas placed at the end of the diagonals and in the centre, which corresponded originally to one of the part-fields of the Xon^ö/íai-mandara, but which appears often in the Honji Buddha series of the shintö sanctuaries (Kasuga, Kuraano) as well." The kakebotoke-s were generally made of bronze, either with embossed work, or casting of the kebutsu-s, in the latter case, fastened first to a bronze plate, then together with it to a wooden plate. In books we also find mentioned the wooden, carved, painted or lacquered kakebotoke-s, just as the halos of the Buddha statues were made either of bronze or of wood. Thus the kakebotoke-s might have been produced in the workshops of Buddhist sculptors. It is difficult to determine whether the kebutsu of the Museum was made for a halo, or for a kakebotoke. Its careful and fine modelling and casting would yet speak for the latter. The kakebotoke-s were made generally in the second half of the Heian period and in the Kamakura period, less frequently 7 Exhibition catalogue of Jin-Butsu Yügö Bijutsu, Nara, 1962.