Category:

Municipally Designated Tangible Cultural Property (Craft)

Title:

Chofukuji kakebotoke

Hanging Round Tablets of Chofukuji Temple
長福寺懸仏

No. of features:

One tablet, four figures

Designated:

May 15, 1958

Location:

Chofukuji Temple, 98-6 Besshocho, Kita Ward

Owner:

The religious juridical person of Chokufuji Temple

Description:

Kakebotoke (literally, “hanging Buddhas”) are usually fashioned from round tablets featuring a hammered relief or separately-attached figure of a Buddhist or Shinto deity.

These gilded bronze pieces date back to the Kamakura period (1185-1333).

There are four figures:

Seated Thousand-Armed Kannon (Avalokiteshvara), standing 14.2 centimeters tall and 1.6 centimeters wide;

Seated Kannon (Avalokiteshvara), standing 9.46 centimeters tall and 1.8 centimeters wide;

Seated Yakushi (Bhaisajyaguru) Buddha, standing 8.78 centimeters tall and 2.7 centimeters wide;

and Standing Kannon (Avalokiteshvara), standing 12.16 centimeters tall and 1.78 centimeters wide.

The round backdrop panel has a diameter of 18.80 centimeters and a rim measuring 3 centimeters wide and .2 centimeters thick.

These pieces were discovered in a field north of the temple during the late Taisho period (1912-1926).

Associated Texts:

(1986). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 2). Omiya Board of Education.

This cultural property is not on permanent display. Please receive the permission of the owners and curators before viewing these artifacts.

Please be courteous towards other visitors, worshippers, locals, and the site’s owners/curators when visiting this cultural property.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/017/004/003/p000285.html