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What is Daruma holding ?
Recently a friend asked me:
"Why is this Lady Daruma holding a duster? Is she going to clean her home?"
Well, that was the origin of this story.
. Jimotsu - What is Daruma holding? .
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Why does Daruma have his hands under his robe?
Covering the hands of Bodhidharma and Shâkyamuni Buddha with their robes on Chan Buddhist paintings might be used deliberately by the artist in order to avoid to depict a specific hand gesture or mudra thus this compositional scheme might be understood as an “anti-mudra”.
This anti-mudra then can be a symbol of the wordless transmission.
(Seckel 1965:35-72 Cf. Brinker 1973:22-23)
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Another explanation is this one:
source : jyouhoji.jiin.com Temple Juuhoji Kyoto常保寺
This statue comes in a robe fluttering to the right, almost like the iconography for a "Shakyamuni coming down from the mountains" ( Shaka coming out of the mountains, shutsuzan shaka 出山釈迦. ）
You might wonder why most statues of Daruma have the arms hidden under the robe. One explanation we have about statues and pictures of Shakyamuni in this pose is the following:
He is coming down from the mountains after long years of meditation and has his new wisdom still hidden under his robe.
He later walks to Benares in India where he holds his first sermon, expounding the newly found wisdom.
. Yakimono 焼物 Daruma in and on pottery .
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出山釈迦像: Shakyamuni
木彫207×65×65cm Woodcarving
www.tym.ed.jp/sc350/aoi/daihyosakuhin/d5.htm
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岡部竹涯筆 紙本著色 慶応元(1865)年
Treasures of Kishiwada city, Osaka
source : www.city.kishiwada.osaka.jp
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右恵愚渓筆
南北朝時代（１４世紀） China, 14th cent.
MORE paintings from China:
source : chinaalacarte.web
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Matsuo Basho
ReplyDelete南無ほとけ草の台も涼しけれ -
namu hotoke kusa no utena mo suzushikare
Praise to Buddha!
this pedestal of grass
must also be so cool
Hokku for a statue of Shussan Shaka 出山釈迦 "Shaka coming out of the mountains".
by his disciple in Edo, Torii Bunrin 鳥居文鱗.
In 1683, when Basho moved to the second Basho-An in Fukagawa, Bunrin gave him a statue of Skakyamuni coming down from the mountains, which Basho cherished a lot.
Before Basho died at Osaka, he gave this statue to Kagami Shikoo 各務支考 Shiko.
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Fudo Myo-O
ReplyDeleteStatue at Kuragatake 座ヶ岳（ くらがたけ ）
in Echizen 越前織田
This statue has a rather floating robe, blown by the wind.