Shaka, the Historical Buddha

View: With pedestal

Shaka nyorai zazô
釈迦如来坐像　一躯

Japanese

late Heian period

late 10th–early 11th centuries

Medium/Technique Cherry with polychrome and gold; single woodblock construction

Dimensions Overall (Figure standing on the pedestal): 140.3 × 77.5 × 77.5 cm (55 1/4 × 30 1/2 × 30 1/2 in.)
Overall: 83cm (32 11/16in.)

Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession Number09.72

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsSculpture

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. II (Buddhist & Shinto sculp.), no. 6

Provenance1909, gift of Denman Waldo Ross