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Single-pronged vajra (tokkosho)


Tokkosho
独鈷杵
Japanese
Edo period
19th century

Medium/Technique Brass; cast
Dimensions 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.) (length)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number22.509
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsRitual objects

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. III (Buddhist dec. arts), no. 57 Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (2022), ch. III (Buddhist Ritual Objects), no. 58
ProvenanceLent by William Sturgis Bigelow, April 18, 1913; 1922 gift of William Sturgis Bigelow.