Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 10. (Budapest, 1967)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Tibor: Reports on the Activities of the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in 1965-1966

Fig. 6. Japan: Buddha Amitabha, wooden statue, from the second half of the 15

th century or from the first half of the 16

th

. Height: 29.5 cm. Purchase. Inventory number: 65.29. Made of light wood, perhaps from the same kiri wood which was the material of the Nó masks. The statue was carved in separate parts, the front and the back, the sides with arms and the lower part with feet and then the parts were joined together. Now on the surface of the statue, their joints are hardly visible. The head of Buddha Amitabha was also carved as a separate piece, the important one and was added finally to the statue when the other parts were already joined together. The traces of the carving are seen slightly on the surface, more forcefully on the inside, as the marks of a certain style. The statue is coated with a thin layer of dark coloured lacquer. The eyes are slightly opened, the elongated earlobes are pierced with a larger perforation, following the contour-lines. The small round rock crystals are inserted, one as the urna, the other right above the forehead, among the locks of hair. The hands, also carved separately, are missing. T. H.