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Seiganji


The wooden statue of Shou-kannon


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H18. April 13th. City Cultural Property Obama Kanda, Obama city Seiganji


 It is bodhisattva made by the technique that begins to be cut down from one wood of an old style, in an engraving putting out is not given from one material from which the executive with the head and the body including almost of the both arms is thought to be a conifer. The appearance etc. that considerably squeeze the part of the trunk and stand upright are old styles. But when the thinness of the depth of the expression or the body that the way to carve a mild face and clothes with few encounters of open misgivings of the eyelid is shallow is seen, the Heian age seems about an end in the time of production. At a few simplicity, failure is not, and is evaluated to forming as an old buddhist image on about the end of the Heian age though is admitted.
 Seiganji that owns this Kannon buddhist statue is in an old urban area in Obama City. The old buddhist statue that goes back to the Heian age is thought that another doesn't exist, and this Kannonbosatsu statue is the oldest in this region. Details of the transmission are uncertain, but it turns out to have collected beliefs in this region from the signature sentence of the plinth that seems that a repair signature it and the history etc. of the temple warehouse at the early modern age.