Lot n° 56
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
Attr. à UCHIDA KUICHI (1844-1875) - Lot 56
Attr. à UCHIDA KUICHI (1844-1875)
Three first print albumen prints
The Niomon
215 x 270 mm
The Nio Guardians, or Kongōrikishi, Nikkō Tōshō-gū, Nikko, 1873
276 x 220 mm
Statues at the First Entrance to Yomei-mon
278 x 219 mm
The name Kongōrikishi was passed down from the image of the Greek hero Heracles through East Asia along the Silk Road. Heracles was used in Greco-Buddhist art to represent
Vajrapani, the protector of Buddha, and his depiction was later followed in
China and Japan to represent the protective gods of Buddhist temples.
This transmission is only a small part of the Greco-Buddhist influence, a syncretic phenomenon, where Buddhism interacts with the Hellenistic culture of Central Asia from the
4th century BC until the 4th century AD.
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